Luigi Auriemma

Hi Guys and Luigi :)
I was interested in your pbmessenger tool and tried in Enemy Territory it but im not really sure what it exactly does..or it simply didnt work :)
Thx Noobie

The tool sends messages to any server which use Punkbuster.
In the case of Enemy Territory, for example, I have just used:

pbmsgs 127.0.0.1 27960 hello

and in the server's console was written:

PunkBuster Server: YPG Server Packet Discarded due to incorrect Local Key [hello]

the message should be visible only to the server.
Anyway you can try also the -x command which scans all the valid PB commands:

pbmsgs -x 127.0.0.1 27960 hello

k thank you for the quick answer :)

Note that during my tests seems that all the servers which use Punkbuster can be freezed due to a flooding of messages, this happens due to the resources taken by PB for logging the messages in the log files using fflush.
The tests have been performed on different games with the same results using a delay between packets from 20 milliseconds (50 packets per second which is equal of only 400 bytes/s) to 0 (no delay)

Luigi, please tell, what port should I use for bf1942? I try to use 14567 port, but nothing happens.

port 14567 is right, seems that PB has finally solved the problem

Thank you!

isn't it possible to change punkbuster port ?

as far as I know it's not possible, it's like a library which uses the same network connection of the game

how about you guys try it on other servers...
if it doesn't work at all then prolly like Luigi said .. its fixed, but if it works on some then i guess they found a way to change port or just patched it.

this morning I have sent a mail to Punkbuster to know the exact day when the bug has been corrected (I have tested another game and I can confirm the correction) so I will release a reference advisory soon.