Hello All,

the machine is a 1.6GHz P4 w/ a 1GB of ram.
Seagate ATA Baracuda4 80GB harddrive...
the HL server is on a second ethernet card in the machine--1st is a
3com 3c905c and 2nd is 3com 3c905b.

I don't think it is a question of usage--if a single person from Far
Away connects then they usually get very high pings--but I can create
several connections from Close By and all get good pings.
The HL server never grabs more than sliver (<10%) of the cpu, and only
a hand-full of the RAM.

The latency ppl don't have any relation to what the pings I see when
I ping their machine (just a regular ping <ip_addr> )
but the other players' ping fluctuates seemingly randomly, but
generally all at once or a group at once.  I don't think it has
anything to do with the network--there are very few students here 
right now, and if I run this on a linux machine, I don't get the
IP_MULTICAST_LOOP error and pings are fine for what small amount
of testing I have done.

occationally I will see messages from CounterStrike when logging on that
mention IP_MULTICAST_LOOP, but I'm never quick enough to write it down.

Thank you!
Jonathan
 
> HL serv is very CPU comsuming - what is number of players at you serv 
> and cpu of machine?
> > Hello,
> > 
> >   I am trying to run a new half life server on NetBSD, but I am 
> > having the following problem (this is 1.5.2, with the latest suse_linux
> > packages installed). I have run a half-life server on this box before
> > and haven't changed anything significantly--just the new version of
> > the game.
> > Whenever I start hlds_run, I get the following message:
> > 
> > WARNING: UDP_OpenSocket: port 27015 setsockopt IP_MULTICAST_LOOP: Invalid argument
> > 
> > and though I can connect (from close proximity fine (large LAN
> > basically), ppl who try to connect from farther away get ridiculouslyCPU
> > high latency (> 1s) in the game--pings back and forth are generally 30ms