Connections Between Croquet Worlds Outside of LAN
In a recent post on Julian's blog, Doug asked:
"I know Croquet is an SDK, not an application, but I don't see how to connect to other people outside the local area network."
Here's how, the most straight forward way is use the SimpleDemo(Master) as a starter, you will notice there is a menu bar on top for this template. Choose Tools -> Connect to Another World.
A new panel appears, if you drop down the "nearby world", you would see your own world's name (Simple Demo World (your ip address)).
Then somewhere in the bottom of the panel, you see "Postcard as XML", with some xml code in the box:
Copy and send it to your friend whom you want to connect. You can do it via email, im or whatever. They can be as remote as on the other side of the globe. What they need to do then is to do the same as you did, open up SimpleDemo(Master), choose Tools -> Connect to Another World. Then copy and paste the information from you into the fields, the critical ones (must fill ones) are:
Router Address (get it from routerAddress tag), Router Port(from routerAddress tag), Session (Island ID) (from routerId tag), Name (from routerName tag) and Viewpoint Name (from vpn tag).
You can skip the manual input if you can setup Jabber. Anyway, we have used this method to connect to groups in Washington DC a few weeks ago and the connection was quite smooth and we managed to show case our Arts Metaverse project over Croquet platform. You do want to apply the newest patch first though. Give it a try.
Comments:
Cheers,
Janet
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12/03/07 @ 19:55 
· http://blog.loaz.com/timwang Arts Metaverse in Croquet is not currently available to the public. We are testing it with our faculty members and students. We are planning to make it available when the project is more mature.
Tim
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12/03/07 @ 20:12 Permalink
12/04/07 @ 06:59 We are installing an instance of Croquet on a Linux server in our DMZ, so that all partners can get access to the same instance and develop our trial world.
We need to contact someone who has installed croquet on a large and highly secured network so that we may get advice on issues like security, firewall configuration, ports, IP, and a host of other issues.
The information you have here is helpful when you have notebooks in an open internet. Our trial will develop standards for other large organisations.
Can you suggest someone who can help us?
Thanks,
aAron
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05/01/08 @ 19:49