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denky

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« Reply #60 on: December 20, 2003, 06:33:00 AM »
The prev post got me thinking, how does live games call home?  

Do they rely on DNS to resolve the address?

I doubt the games are hardcoded with static ip, so what if we just set our xbox with invalid dns servers?  It won't be able to resolve the address the games need to connect out.

Of cos we will need to use ip addresses for xbconnect as a consequence.
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Radagastmod

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« Reply #61 on: December 20, 2003, 10:52:00 AM »
Setting a bad gateway should stop an internet connection as well.  Is there an easy way to use a different gatway for which bios u boot too.... For people who boot one for live and one not for live?
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RELIC

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« Reply #62 on: December 21, 2003, 06:47:00 AM »
auh... this might not be possible but couldnt you just have a seporate ms dash that you can get through your modded dash?  Like have your ms dash link point to one without xblive installed or would that screw things up? just an idea
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Moleman

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« Reply #63 on: December 22, 2003, 09:14:00 AM »
How about a bios that launches a firewall xbe/dash that blocks the live port ranges.
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« Reply #64 on: December 24, 2003, 05:30:00 AM »
QUOTE (Moleman @ Dec 22 2003, 02:14 PM)
How about a bios that launches a firewall xbe/dash that blocks the live port ranges.

That would be great, because MS could change the code all they want and it would still work. just allow xlink and system link traffic through!
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Cutriss

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« Reply #65 on: December 24, 2003, 09:22:00 AM »
QUOTE (...ReLLiK @ Dec 24 2003, 03:30 PM)
QUOTE (Moleman @ Dec 22 2003, 02:14 PM)
How about a bios that launches a firewall xbe/dash that blocks the live port ranges.
That would be great, because MS could change the code all they want and it would still work. just allow xlink and system link traffic through!

Yeah, it would be great.

IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, WHICH IT IS NOT! SO STOP FREAKING ASKING!

This sort of stuff has been covered ad fucking infinitum in the BIOS Hacks Suggestions thread.
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Moleman

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« Reply #66 on: December 24, 2003, 09:47:00 PM »
Well, you know how evox has IGR, right?  Well I was thinking, however it made IGR work inside of a game it would have a mini-firewall.  Windows XP does it.  But then we get into multitasking.  Doh!
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« Reply #67 on: December 28, 2003, 02:46:00 PM »
QUOTE (ivc @ Dec 17 2003, 04:53 PM)
it seems dvd2xbox 0.5.2 can patch files directly using acl control lists, hence applying smo's patch

is this correct?
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HR|default.xbe|1|A801750CC745|90909090C745|

while we wait for a bios patch we could use this method smile.gif

ivc,

Slight fix; missed the "5" at the end of the search string.

I just tested this idea with adding this to dvd2xbox's acl list. It worked while backing up Unreal Championship. Made sure my network cable was still pluged in, and made sure to test on my xbox that can access XBLive. It gave me a cannot connect error. biggrin.gif

Just for info's sake, I used "dvd2xbox 0.5.2 tc1"

Now to see if this acl thing works nicely with my game file deletions... muhaha.gif
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