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The Promised LAN

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Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by musicale »

tecleandor wrote: post #80
kentonv wrote: post #28

Heh, of all arguably-valid definitions of "LAN Party" I think this one is as far away from mine as you can get. Traditional LAN party: Everyone brings their computers to one place to connect via a LAN, where they play games, swap files, demo stuff to each other, etc. My LAN party: All my friends come over to my house and use the computers that I have already set up for them. Nobody brings their own. The point is to i…

Hah! OP feels more like a WAN party :P

I think we can welcome virtual LAN parties into the fold, especially post-pandemic. Also games like Diablo 4 have given up on LAN and are WAN-only (though there is couch co-op?) but still fun to play in person, as are MMOs, online team FPS, etc.

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by bombcar »

brudgers wrote: post #64
kentonv wrote: post #28

Heh, of all arguably-valid definitions of "LAN Party" I think this one is as far away from mine as you can get. Traditional LAN party: Everyone brings their computers to one place to connect via a LAN, where they play games, swap files, demo stuff to each other, etc. My LAN party: All my friends come over to my house and use the computers that I have already set up for them. Nobody brings their own. The point is to i…

If you aren’t using IPX/SPX, it isn’t a real LAN party. Or there’s true Scotsman all the way down to the turtle.

Null modem LAN parties!

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by RainyDayTmrw »

Maybe I'm missing something important. Is this purely an overlay network on top of regular IP with regular ISPs? Or have the got their own physical layer that I missed during reading? My confusion comes from LAN usually implying physical layer colocation. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a WAN?

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by mrheosuper »

kentonv wrote: post #28

Heh, of all arguably-valid definitions of "LAN Party" I think this one is as far away from mine as you can get. Traditional LAN party: Everyone brings their computers to one place to connect via a LAN, where they play games, swap files, demo stuff to each other, etc. My LAN party: All my friends come over to my house and use the computers that I have already set up for them. Nobody brings their own. The point is to i…

WAN party maybe ?

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by kentonv »

musicale wrote: post #96
kentonv wrote: post #28

Heh, of all arguably-valid definitions of "LAN Party" I think this one is as far away from mine as you can get. Traditional LAN party: Everyone brings their computers to one place to connect via a LAN, where they play games, swap files, demo stuff to each other, etc. My LAN party: All my friends come over to my house and use the computers that I have already set up for them. Nobody brings their own. The point is to i…

The Promised LAN is a bit of a WAN party, but I would say that "LAN party" can certainly be assumed to include virtual LANs. I'm even willing to say that a get-together of friends in the same location playing the same online game (perhaps using laptops / handhelds / tablets / smartphones / etc.) still fits the spirit of the LAN party, even though it might technically be over a WAN. (Former LAN game series like Diablo…

For my definition, I totally don't care whether the server is local or in the cloud. I have a fast enough internet connection that it won't make a difference. (I mean. I would _like_ servers to be local, but I'm not going to refuse a game just because it uses cloud servers.)

The important thing is only that the players are local.

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by userbinator »

kentonv wrote: post #28

Heh, of all arguably-valid definitions of "LAN Party" I think this one is as far away from mine as you can get. Traditional LAN party: Everyone brings their computers to one place to connect via a LAN, where they play games, swap files, demo stuff to each other, etc. My LAN party: All my friends come over to my house and use the computers that I have already set up for them. Nobody brings their own. The point is to i…

It's more like a "VPN party".

Sibling comments here have suggested "WAN party", but that sounds more like one that anyone on the public Internet can join.

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by userbinator »

RainyDayTmrw wrote: post #103

Maybe I'm missing something important. Is this purely an overlay network on top of regular IP with regular ISPs? Or have the got their own physical layer that I missed during reading? My confusion comes from LAN usually implying physical layer colocation. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a WAN?

The network is made up of independently operated and heterogeneous nodes (currently three nodes, a mix of Debian using strongSwan and OpenBSD using iked), which peer over IPSec links.

It's a VPN connecting sites together to form something like a LAN, but geographically separated. Multinational company "LAN"s are set up in a similar fashion.

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