Building / installing / testing the Anet Server

  Build everything by typing "make" on the command line.

  Follow the instructions found in "linux86/server/README2.txt" to install and 
  run a game server.

  Run gtest (found in "demo/gtest/normal"), with the following command line 
  options, to connect to a game server:
		gtest -p:IPADR -t:SPECIES -n:DLL

  where IPADR is the IP address of the machine running the game server,
  SPECIES is the id of the game lobby (if you don't care, just use 1000),
  and DLL is the network transport DLL (under Linux, this is ignored unless you 
  have Loki's transport patch).

  (Note: "localhost" will not work for the IP address -- you must use the public 
  IP address as seen by clients! See server/README2.txt for more details).

  Once you have succeeded in running gtest and connecting to a game server, 
  create a new session using the host command in gtest (i.e. "host foo 8" will 
  create a new session with name foo and 8 maximum players).
 
  Run another instance of gtest in another window, and connect to the same game 
  server and with the same species you used earlier. Then type "sessions" in the 
  new window; you should see the name of the new session you just created. If 
  you can see your new session (in the new window of course), then all is well 
  and good, otherwise the test failed.

  If the first test succeeded, try adding and deleting players (with the 
  "newplayer" and "delplayer" commands, respectively) to the session from both 
  windows and make sure the changes are shown in each window. Make sure you join 
  the session created in the host window by using the join command in the client 
  window (i.e. "join foo"). You may also want to try changing the names of some 
  players using the "setpname" command. When deleting players from a session, 
  the host can delete any player; however, a client can only delete players that 
  it has created. In addition, each client, as well as the host, can add up to 
  four players for a given session. More information on gtest can be found in 
  "doc/gtest.htm".

  To test the game server with a real game, obtain and install an Anet game that 
  supports multiplayer internet game play. Then:
 
    Search for the session type (or Species) of your game in the file 
    "types.txt", located in the game server etc/ directory.
 
    Then connect to your game server via gtest with the session type you just 
    found (i.e. "Civilization: Call to Power" has session type 73).
 
    Create a new session (i.e. "host foo 8").
 
    Declare the session to be a server lobby by typing "lobby". 

    Connect to your game server via your Anet game. 

    Join the lobby you declared at step 3 (via your Anet game). 

    Create new players and delete players via gtest for the session created in 
    step 3; and make sure you can see those changes in your Anet game.
 
Making your server available to the world

Games have an internal hardcoded list of master game servers. Once they connect 
to one of those servers, they suck down a list of all known game servers, and 
store it in the file servers.dat (the location on disk varies from game to 
game). There are two ways to make your server known to the world:
 
  Get your server added to a popular Anet server's list of game servers. (See 
  server/README2.txt, part 5a.) Then when people connect to that Anet server, 
  their servers.dat file will be updated with your server's address. 
  Using gtest, create a servers.dat file containing your server's address, and 
  post it on a web site together with instructions telling users how to download 
  it and overwrite their existing servers.dat with it. To create the servers.dat 
  file, put your game server in its own list of servers (servers.txt), restart 
  the server, connect to it using gtest, and give the 'gameservers' command. 
  Once you see your server in that list, and quit gtest, it writes out the 
  'servers.dat' file you need.
 
Additional Notes:
  Game server types (or Species) for specific Anet games can be found in the 
  file "types.txt" located in the game server etc/ directory. 
  You can make permanent entries to the files "names.txt, "servers.txt", 
  "apps.txt", and "types.txt" by putting those desired entries in the files 
  "local-names.txt", "local-severs.txt", "local-apps.txt", and 
  "local-types.txt", respectively. 
  Anet does not like running on machines with multiple IP addresses. Under 
  Linux, you can get around this by using the UUDP_ADDRESS environment variable 
  to tell Anet which IP address to use. Under Windows, you should avoid running 
  Anet servers or clients on machines that have more than one IP address (e.g. 
  machines acting as Internet Sharing gateways).