ever hear of a patch? or a mod? they may also want to connect to play on an online server, half-life 2 requires steam authentication from there internet servers to play (there is a legit way around it but I wouldn't expect people to have it done, and it requires internet to do) they wouldn't need access to our subnet. but trust me they'll want the internet, and they'll need it open... because games can use all sorts of various crazy ports... If they have to run it through the same internet line as us they may hog it, we still might want to consider installing a box as a router that can handle connection throttling that way no one person can hog the line. LAN parties are fun but setting them up can be a pain, I used to go to one that occurred once a term at baker and it always took us two hours to get people in there and up for gaming, because people would come in... need to install the game we were playing, then they would have to get a patch, if we were playing with mods or custom maps, they needed to get those... I remember we were playing counterstrike source (which will most definitely be there) but we were using a hack. well i owned it legally but I was 1 of 2 of maybe 30, and I had to get the crack because the legal version didn't work with the crack. We can also expect a very large increase of piracy if the gamer's are in the same room... <div>On 3/7/06, Charles Tower <<a href="mailto:c.e.tower@gmail.com">c.e.tower@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Why do gamers need access to our network?  Let them set up their own and we won't have to worry about their traffic.  They don't need internet access for LAN parties.                                 Chick Caleb Cushing wrote: > you can expect them to bring fairly powerful gaming machines. you can > also expect that our problems have just doubled... perhaps we should > try to get Tom to one of our meetings if feasibly possible. We need to > take his network design into account with ours, because more than > likely they'll end up using more external bandwidth than us. They'll > use it for things other than simple web browsing. _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user </a> </blockquote></div>