Thanks to raphael, here's a mini "how to play on LAN to RA3 with Wine + windows users, when the LAN is a VPN"
My hostname, in this tutorial, is TACHIBANA.
1. First establish a VPN. I use a bridged VPN set up with OpenVPN. It works fine.
The VPN client created a tap0 interface with the IP 11.0.0.3.
2. Re-route packets for 255.255.255.255 to your VPN interface (Here tap0)
# route add host 255.255.255.255 dev tap0
3. In /etc/hosts, remove any reference to your hostname (TACHIBANA here) and, on the first line, add :
11.0.0.3 TACHIBANA
4. Compile this little hack made by Raphael :
http://hughes.homelinux.org:8080/~rapha ... ck.tar.bz2 . On a 64 bits machine, here's how I compiled this little hack :
$ cc bind_hack.c -o bind_hack.so -O2 -fPIC -Wall -shared -lc -nostdlib -m32
5. Launch RA3 with wine, while preloading this little hack.
/path/to/RA3$ LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/bind_hack/bind_hack.so wine RA3
6. Connect on the Lobby and check if you see your friends.
7. Create a game, let the users connect, choose their team, ...
8. Launch the game
9. Play
10. ?????
11. Profit !
For info, here are my network informations :
TACHIBANA:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1d:09:c3:25:9e
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interruption:17
lo Link encap:Boucle locale
inet adr:127.0.0.1 Masque:255.0.0.0
adr inet6: ::1/128 Scope:Hôte
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:21802 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:21802 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:0
RX bytes:1104381 (1.0 MiB) TX bytes:1104381 (1.0 MiB)
tap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 66:b6:cc:e4:c2:23
inet adr:11.0.0.3 Bcast:11.0.0.255 Masque:255.255.255.0
adr inet6: fe80::64b6:ccff:fee4:c223/64 Scope:Lien
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC ALLMULTI MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:76098 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:63247 errors:0 dropped:1122 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:100
RX bytes:29197572 (27.8 MiB) TX bytes:22467044 (21.4 MiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:3c:12
75
inet adr:192.168.1.50 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Masque:255.255.255.0
adr inet6: fe80::21f
fe12:cd75/64 Scope:Lien
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:131405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:125745 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
RX bytes:72057503 (68.7 MiB) TX bytes:41252460 (39.3 MiB)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1F-3C-12-CD-75-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
TACHIBANA:~# route
Table de routage IP du noyau
Destination Passerelle Genmask Indic Metric Ref Use Iface
255.255.255.255 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 tap0
11.0.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 tap0
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 wlan0
default neufbox 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0
TACHIBANA:~# cat /etc/hosts
11.0.0.3 TACHIBANA
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
# dpkg -l wine
[...]
ii wine 1.1.21~winehq1-1 Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer
System : Debian Sid