Server Change

Ok, as I mentioned in the Chatbox the server was down this morning from approximatly 10:30am EST to approximatly 3:15pm EST.

I took the server down in order to facilitate a network change that was occuring at WCU. This change has been an on-going change to the WCU network, specifically the ResNet network which is now split up into multiple subnets when previously all 4100+ nodes were in the same subnet which generated a enormous amount of traffic on the 4 ResNet interfaces on the core router. Now ResNet is split up into multiple subnets (usually between 3-6 per Residence Hall) which the core router can handle much eaisier (due to the fact that some of the new network switches are also playing the roles of routers to streamline the traffic out of the residence halls).

What does this mean for the Game Server?

It means two things:

1) The IP address of the server (and all of the hosted games) has changed. The new IP address is 152.30.192.240

and

2) Perfomance accross the network SHOULD be improved to the Game Server. I say should becasue we don’t have 4100 users on campus to test with. However we have seen increased network response time on the Admin network since the same change took place.

My appoligies to any inconvience this change may have caused you. If you have any questions or concerns, or just want to cuss me out, please feel free to email me.

-AJ 8)