Plan G network problem

[Ondrej]

Hello,

I found out about Plan G just couple of days back and since then I fallen in love with it. I want to run Plan G on my network Laptop while FSX runs on my other PC. But up till now I was not successful. My network setting is fine I think, I can ping each PC with no problem, I set up Plan G on laptop to get the database from the FSX PC so this shouldn't be the issue. Both of my computers are connected to a router with firewall, FSX PC using Ethernet cable, Laptop using wireless connection. Ip of my fsx PC is 192.168.2.100. On both PCs I have Eset smart security.
Here's what I did in SimConnect.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>

<SimBase.Document Type="SimConnect" version="1,0">
  <Descr>SimConnect</Descr>
  <Filename>SimConnect.xml</Filename>
  <Disabled>False</Disabled>
  <SimConnect.Comm>
    <Disabled>False</Disabled>

    <Protocol>IPv4</Protocol>
    <Scope>global</Scope>
    <Address>127.0.0.1</Address>
    <Port>17200</Port>
  </SimConnect.Comm>

<SimConnect.Comm>
   <Disabled>False</Disabled>
   <Protocol>Auto</Protocol>
   <Scope>local</Scope>
</SimConnect.Comm>

<SimConnect.Comm>
   <Disabled>False</Disabled>
   <Protocol>Auto</Protocol>
   <Scope>global</Scope>
   <Address>192.168.2.100</Address>
   <MaxClients>64</MaxClients>
   <Port>4506</Port>
   <MaxRecvSize>4096</MaxRecvSize>
   <DisableNagle>False</DisableNagle>
</SimConnect.Comm>

<SimConnect.Comm>
   <Disabled>False</Disabled>
   <Protocol>IPv4</Protocol>
   <Scope>global</Scope>
</SimBase.Document>

On Laptop I set up Plan G in FS Connection parameters as follow:
Connect with : AUTO
Network mode: IPv4
FSX Computer: 192.168.2.100
Server Port/Pipe: 4506

Both of the PC´s ar XP professional

I tried to turn off firewall, and repeated the tutorial in the manual of Plan G many times. Hope this explanation is enough.

Best regards

Ondrej

[tim arnot]

Does the router reserve an address for the FS PC? If not, it may get a different IP address every time it starts (which would mean redoing the config every time).

The other likely possibility is that your security is blocking the port. Try a much larger port number (e.g. Something around 10000), for see if your firewall/security has the option to "open" the port for access.

Also, check the log to see if there's an error when you try to connect.

Finally, you are running SP2/Acceleration, yes?

[Ondrej]

The only thing I can confirm right now is that I run FSX acceleration :) I'll check the other things later, I'm late for lecture:).
But thank you for your quick answer!

Ondrej