Luigi Auriemma

obviously the protocol is not documented so there is not much to do.
if the game supports that TXN command you are testing then it's the only source of informations you have, which means that you check in your sniffed packets or reverse it in the executable.
otherwise there is no choice because only the EA server knows what's missing

Thank you for your fast reply.

To bad that there is no documentation, that would be really cool :)

I have some progress in protocol research. In this moment i use it to observe my BFBC2 statistics. But in fact i have more questions then answers :( If somebody interested in protocol researching, please contact with me.

if you have something useful to share why not just doing it here?

Useful for what?
This topic for discussion about EAlist.
Please suggest any other place (board) to talk about fesl protocol and BF stats.

I meant here in the forum, so open another thread here in the Research sub-section

There is a minor protocol bug in EAList which prolly does not matter that much but just for the completion of the application.

if(ea_send(ssl_sd, fesl_sd, "acct", 0xc0000003, // logout
"TXN=Goodbye\n"
"reason=GOODBYE_CLIENT_NORMAL\n"
"message=\"Disconnected via front-end\"\n") < 0) goto quit;

The fesl server responded with an error when I tried, but it turned out that if you change the command from acct to fsys the server responds with a Goodbye message.

Just my two cents

yes you are right, a classical copy&paste mistake :)
thanx

the following is something that deservers to be tried:

• get ealist >= 0.1.4
  http://aluigi.org/papers.htm#ealist
• get gs_login_server >= 0.2.3a
  http://aluigi.org/papers.htm#gs_login_server
• add the following entries in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
  127.0.0.1 bf2142-pc.fesl.ea.com
  127.0.0.1 cncra3-pc.fesl.ea.com
  127.0.0.1 gpsp.gamespy.com
  127.0.0.1 gpcm.gamespy.com
• if you have Battlefield 2142 run:
  ealist -S 18300 -v
  if you have Red Alert 3:
  ealist -S 18840 -v
  change the port for the other games that use fesl and Gamespy (for sure Command & Conquer 3 and LOTR:BFME and BFME2)
• launch the file launch_debug.bat of gs_login_server
• run one of the two games said before USING an invalid cdkey (ergc key in the registry) or one already in use and/or an unexistent/invalid account
• now you are playing online without problems :)

Is it possible to only receive server list based on region? the string returned is B-U-region and is usually a 2 letter region code such as US, NL, OC etc..
Currently I'm receiving the entire server list then filtering out the region I want but this is taking way too long

ealist doesn't support a filter because is still not much clear if the EA theater server supports it.

we know that it supports the following filters:
FILTER-FAV-ONLY=
FILTER-NOT-FULL=
FILTER-NOT-PRIVATE=
FILTER-NOT-CLOSED=
FILTER-MIN-SIZE=
FAV-PLAYER=
FAV-GAME=
FAV-PLAYER-UID=
FAV-GAME-UID=

but obviously they are not enough for a complete filter like country

OK, I have worked around it by dumping all servers to a mysql database and from there I can filter by region.

Is it just me, or does the -s (search) option not work?

-s works without problems:
ealist -s batt will return the list of games supported by ealist that contain the word "batt" in their name like battlefield bad company

hi i m new to c++ and i can not get ealist work can i get help

C:\1\ea\ealist>gcc ealist.c -o ealist.exe -lssl -lcrypto
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x7): undefined referen
ce to `WSAGetLastError@0'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x77f): undefined refer
ence to `WSAStartup@8'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x821): undefined refer
ence to `stristr'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0xfbd): undefined refer
ence to `htonl@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0xfd3): undefined refer
ence to `htons@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0xffc): undefined refer
ence to `socket@12'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x1038): undefined refe
rence to `setsockopt@20'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x105e): undefined refe
rence to `bind@12'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x107d): undefined refe
rence to `listen@8'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x1095): undefined refe
rence to `ntohs@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x10d7): undefined refe
rence to `accept@12'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x1113): undefined refe
rence to `setsockopt@20'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x1122): undefined refe
rence to `ntohs@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x1133): undefined refe
rence to `inet_ntoa@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x13a8): undefined refe
rence to `htons@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x13c1): undefined refe
rence to `ntohs@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x13d2): undefined refe
rence to `inet_ntoa@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x1411): undefined refe
rence to `socket@12'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x143c): undefined refe
rence to `connect@12'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x1b92): undefined refe
rence to `closesocket@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x1da4): undefined refe
rence to `closesocket@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x1dd5): undefined refe
rence to `htons@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x1dfe): undefined refe
rence to `socket@12'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x1e29): undefined refe
rence to `connect@12'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x2589): undefined refe
rence to `closesocket@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x25cd): undefined refe
rence to `closesocket@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x2d70): undefined refe
rence to `send@16'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x2dc6): undefined refe
rence to `recv@16'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x2e71): undefined refe
rence to `stristr'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x2e96): undefined refe
rence to `stristr'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x31cb): undefined refe
rence to `inet_addr@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x48ea): undefined refe
rence to `closesocket@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x4a7e): undefined refe
rence to `select@20'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x4ab4): undefined refe
rence to `inet_addr@4'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccZCRLef.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x4acb): undefined refe
rence to `gethostbyname@4'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(bss_sock.o):bss_sock.c:(.text+0xca): undefined reference
to `shutdown@8'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(bss_sock.o):bss_sock.c:(.text+0xd4): undefined reference
to `closesocket@4'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(bss_sock.o):bss_sock.c:(.text+0x1b1): undefined reference
to `shutdown@8'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(bss_sock.o):bss_sock.c:(.text+0x1bb): undefined reference
to `closesocket@4'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(bss_sock.o):bss_sock.c:(.text+0x231): undefined reference
to `WSAGetLastError@0'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(bss_sock.o):bss_sock.c:(.text+0x287): undefined reference
to `WSASetLastError@4'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(bss_sock.o):bss_sock.c:(.text+0x29b): undefined reference
to `recv@16'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(bss_sock.o):bss_sock.c:(.text+0x2c9): undefined reference
to `WSAGetLastError@0'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(bss_sock.o):bss_sock.c:(.text+0x30c): undefined reference
to `WSASetLastError@4'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(bss_sock.o):bss_sock.c:(.text+0x324): undefined reference
to `send@16'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(bss_sock.o):bss_sock.c:(.text+0x359): undefined reference
to `WSAGetLastError@0'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(bss_sock.o):bss_sock.c:(.text+0x3ae): undefined reference
to `WSASetLastError@4'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(bss_sock.o):bss_sock.c:(.text+0x3be): undefined reference
to `send@16'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(bss_sock.o):bss_sock.c:(.text+0x3e9): undefined reference
to `WSAGetLastError@0'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(rand_win.o):rand_win.c:(.text+0xa0c): undefined reference
to `CreateDCA@16'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(rand_win.o):rand_win.c:(.text+0xa19): undefined reference
to `CreateCompatibleDC@4'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(rand_win.o):rand_win.c:(.text+0xa2a): undefined reference
to `GetDeviceCaps@8'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(rand_win.o):rand_win.c:(.text+0xa3a): undefined reference
to `GetDeviceCaps@8'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(rand_win.o):rand_win.c:(.text+0xa50): undefined reference
to `CreateCompatibleBitmap@12'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(rand_win.o):rand_win.c:(.text+0xa5e): undefined reference
to `SelectObject@8'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(rand_win.o):rand_win.c:(.text+0xa70): undefined reference
to `GetObjectA@12'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(rand_win.o):rand_win.c:(.text+0xae1): undefined reference
to `BitBlt@36'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(rand_win.o):rand_win.c:(.text+0xaeb): undefined reference
to `GetBitmapBits@12'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(rand_win.o):rand_win.c:(.text+0xb42): undefined reference
to `SelectObject@8'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(rand_win.o):rand_win.c:(.text+0xb49): undefined reference
to `DeleteObject@4'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(rand_win.o):rand_win.c:(.text+0xb53): undefined reference
to `DeleteDC@4'
/mingw/lib/libcrypto.a(rand_win.o):rand_win.c:(.text+0xb5d): undefined reference
to `DeleteDC@4'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

add -lws2_32 -lgdi32 to the gcc command-line
or if you are using an IDE add the ws2_32 and gdi32 libraries from its configuration

ok ty for your help and i m use Mingw
can i get more help

C:\1\ea\ealist>gcc ealist.c -o ealist.exe -lssl -lcrypto -lws2_32 -lgdi32
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccxZ7oeQ.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x821): undefined refer
ence to `stristr'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccxZ7oeQ.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x2e71): undefined refe
rence to `stristr'
C:\DOCUME~1\domo\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccxZ7oeQ.o:ealist.c:(.text+0x2e96): undefined refe
rence to `stristr'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

ah right:
http://aluigi.org/mytoolz/stristr.c

it's bad that mingw doesn't have stristr implemented by default

new bfbc2 pc server port for you all
bfbc2-pc-server.fesl.ea.com:19021 -theaterhost bfbc2-pc-server.theater.ea.com:19026

with what all games should this basically compatible?

with those that use both the EA fesl server (authentication) and the gamespy peerchat server (chat and servers handling), so for sure bf2142 and ra3 that I tested personally.
at the moment I don't know/remember what other games use this "combination" of servers

Hello,
i have some trouble to compile the ealist program in a 64bit environment.

gcc -o ealist ealist_orig.c -lssl -lcrypto
ealist_orig.c: In function ???main???:
ealist_orig.c:563:24: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type

If I run this executable the output is: Error: there has been an error during the connection with the server

The same *.c file compiled and running under a 32bit environment works perfect.

Any help ?

Best,
Ralf

at line 563 there is just nothing so it can't be the original file, anyway it's only a warning.

usually my tools work on both 32 and 64 bits because I use stdint.h that avoids these compatibility problems, so don't know what to suggest.

Hi,this question of mine is not really connected with battlefield bad company 2 but with the EA list itself.
I'm kinda new in all this and i was looking at your EA list script and i'm wondering.. Is it possible
to be changed so it will support the Star Wars game?And if thats possible how can i find the port number and hostname for this game?

Thanks

depends if this game uses those servers and that protocol.

for example the latest Medal of Honor didn't use it.

maybe later I will check if there are updates in the list of supported games, if I remember to do it :)