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In Halo 1 for PC you could go to Multiplayer and search for locally hosted servers. In many other modern games you can do this too. My question is, how is this possible?
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How do games such as Halo scan the network to see if there are any LAN servers
Started by liamzebedee, Aug 13 2011 12:40 AM
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Posted 13 August 2011 - 04:55 AM
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There's a few ways to do it. OpenArena uses a master server that keeps track of all servers that are running. When you "look" for a server, you connect to the master to get a list, then start pinging those servers to find out which ones are close, based on ping.
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