[Freeciv] Connection breaks during game

[Christian Knoke <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

my internet connection may be called rock stable, but when
I play Freeciv on civserver.freeciv.org, it breaks.

This shows up as follows: I'm playing ca. 5..25 minutes
w/o problem, then transmission probably stops, that is
I can't move my units, the timeout counter stops at zero.
Approx 30 seconds after(!) this the connection ends.

The debug log only shows a pppd hangup.

Online again, the metaserver still lists me as active
player, and I can't reconnect :-((  

Just happened again on port 5555 :-(

I'm playing behind a masquerading gateway w/ modem. Anyone
experienced compareable problems?

This is no connection idle timeout, and no masquerading
timeout either.

AFAIK Freeciv uses one single TCP connection only. Is there
anything special with this related to masquerading/firewalling?

Christian

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