PC A17 B208 Connection Time Out

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Not quite sure if i will post this in the B208 bugs area just yet. I see there are lots of A17 servers which are accessible so maybe I am just doing something wrong. To start, I have hosted 7days many times so i do have experience with it but maybe I am missing something stupid. I have created servers on multiple computers and neither of them allow for external clients to join them. They just do a connection time out. I have the telnet console open the whole time and there is not even a connection attempt.

Notes:

  • Brand new server off of Steam Tools
  • Configured specific port in serverconfig.xml
  • Port forwarded with my router (UDP and even tried with also TCP)
  • Confirmed port forward works with online tool
  • Firewall is not an issue as i have the app excluded. even tested with firewall off

I can join the server if I try from same computer. I cannot join from another computer on the same network (local LAN)

Again I watch in the console and nothing gets to the server at all if its external on LAN or from internet.

Any suggestions?

 
My friends do have server connection issues as well. If I recall it is a known issue.
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i have seen in the release notes there are server connection issues as well. I thought for sure if I tried multiple computers, i might get lucky and one would work. maybe I should try my laptop next. I forgot to mention in my post that I tried both RWG and Navezgane as well as testing with smaller and larger maps.

 
On the server side we see client kicked for EAC timeout.

On the client side we see LiteNetLib: Connection closed: RemoteConnectionClose

If I disable EAC, people can connect without an issue. Even those running hacked dll's.

If I enable EAC, but disable LiteNetLib, there is no change.

I've been doing nothing but troubleshooting this issue for about 3 hours now, and don't have a workaround yet that isn't disabling EAC.

 
On the server side we see client kicked for EAC timeout.
On the client side we see LiteNetLib: Connection closed: RemoteConnectionClose

If I disable EAC, people can connect without an issue. Even those running hacked dll's.

If I enable EAC, but disable LiteNetLib, there is no change.

I've been doing nothing but troubleshooting this issue for about 3 hours now, and don't have a workaround yet that isn't disabling EAC.
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If EAC is the issue I will happily turn it off for now. It’s only me and my friends playing on a server with a password anyway.

 
If EAC is the issue I will happily turn it off for now. It’s only me and my friends playing on a server with a password anyway.
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Yeah, even with a 12k map, if I turn off EAC, no one has trouble connecting. Might take them 5 minutes to log in if they are far away, or have slower internet, but they can log in.

 
Yeah, even with a 12k map, if I turn off EAC, no one has trouble connecting. Might take them 5 minutes to log in if they are far away, or have slower internet, but they can log in.
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I have also tried disabling EAC with no effect. outside players cannot connect still.

Testing with yet another computer now

<sigh>

 
I have also tried disabling EAC with no effect. outside players cannot connect still.Testing with yet another computer now

<sigh>
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UPDATE~~

I used the other networking protocol LiteNetLib and disabled EAC and NOW my server shows up in the list. I can connected to it with at least my local computer and going to test with an outside connection attempt later with a friend.

What I cannot do though is connect directly with the IP address and specified Port. I did a network trace with WireShark and I see the connection attempts come in but NO port is specifically used. That would absolutely be why it would not get through my router as the connection attempt would be dropped there.

Looks like something in the client has been missed in the connection method. It needs to specify the port

I should probably add this as a bug report

 
Get also this error on one of my servers where i´m playing. It´s on this one and only server. The others working fine and are playable for me. But on the one server the game connect to server, try to initialize the world. get an eac connection timeout, shows me the create the charackter screen and freeze.

But the server is available.Lot of my friends can play.

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LiteNetLib Fehler.jpg

EAC Timeout 2.jpg

 
Get also this error on one of my servers where i´m playing. It´s on this one and only server. The others working fine and are playable for me. But on the one server the game connect to server, try to initialize the world. get an eac connection timeout, shows me the create the charackter screen and freeze.But the server is available.Lot of my friends can play.

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Are the other servers you can play on EAC enabled ?

My best guess is your client files have some sort of file difference. Try a client file validation maybe and see if that cahnges things

 
They are all with EAC. I don´t play on Servers without it.

My files are ok. I validate them, EAC is also ok. It is only one server with this issue so i can´t connect to it.

 
They are all with EAC. I don´t play on Servers without it.My files are ok. I validate them, EAC is also ok. It is only one server with this issue so i can´t connect to it.
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Whats the difference with this server?

is it in the same location, on the same computer, anything?

 
The only difference is the world map of 8kx8k. But on other free server with this map size i can also join in, but not on this server. The only thing i know is, that the server which i can´t join in, is a linux server. what the other server are, i don´t know.

Last update. After 12-15 trys i got a connection. But if i log out, the same issue startes from begin. 12-15 connects are minimum to get a chance for a connect..

 
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The only difference is the world map of 8kx8k. But on other free server with this map size i can also join in, but not on this server. The only thing i know is, that the server which i can´t join in, is a linux server. what the other server are, i don´t know.
Last update. After 12-15 trys i got a connection. But if i log out, the same issue startes from begin. 12-15 connects are minimum to get a chance for a connect..
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WOW you are one patient person to try that connection that many times

 
I've had tons of connection lost issues trying to play with a friend in A16.4 and A17. We ended up turning EAC off in A16 and I could usually connect. In A17 we were still having issues with EAC off. Saw a fix mentioned in a google search, tried it, was able to connect. Have only played once since then, not positive that fixed it or I just got lucky but worth a try. Removed SteamNetworking from the ServerDisabledNetworkProtocols line in serverconfig.xml.

 
After a lot of try and error, we maybe found the error in the playersaves at the Server. With the existing profile i have a successfull login after every 12-15 login. After deleting the profile of my charakter on the server and create a new one, the failed logins falls down to zero till one. So i think, it could happend, that the game maybe creates broken profiles.

 
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