Forwarder

Overview

Forwarder is an application that will convert SWG's UDP protocol into a basic TCP protocol.

Benefits

Reduced memory usage on server
Less networking code
Less bandwidth
Faster connection detection (both connecting and disconnecting)
Reliable connection persistence
and many more

How it works

The way it works is by creating a very basic UDP server on each client, and having SWG connect to that instead of Holocore. Then the Forwarder connects via TCP to Holocore and forwards all SWG packets that were received over UDP, to TCP.

Setup

Single Instance

Start up the forwarder
Open up login.cfg and set "loginServerAddress" to "127.0.0.1" and "loginServerPort" to whatever is listed next to the client connection status (e.x. 44453)
Start up the SWG client

Multiple Instances

Repeat above for all SWG clients. It's important that you modify login.cfg and start the client before modifying login.cfg again

Example login.cfg

#!properties

[ClientGame]
	loginServerAddress=127.0.0.1
	loginServerPort=44453
	loginClientID=
	autoConnectToLoginServer=false
	skipIntro=1
	skipSplash=1
	0fd345d9 = true
	logReportFatals = true
	logStderr = true
[Station]
	subscriptionFeatures=1
	gameFeatures=65535

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