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The Pia packet handlers are only active when the game is using multiplayer. LanProtocol is only active in the games which are actively using the LAN-mode option (not Ldn) - only certain games support LAN-mode. The LanProtocol Pia packet handler can be reached while in a lobby or searching for one.
 
The Pia packet handlers are only active when the game is using multiplayer. LanProtocol is only active in the games which are actively using the LAN-mode option (not Ldn) - only certain games support LAN-mode. The LanProtocol Pia packet handler can be reached while in a lobby or searching for one.
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Most (?) non-LAN packets require an active StationProtocol connection to be active with {InetAddr which the packet was received from}, otherwise the packet is filtered out.
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Most Pia packets require an active StationProtocol connection to be active with {InetAddr which the packet was received from}, otherwise the packet is filtered out. The only protocols which don't use filtering are the following: NatTraversalProtocol, LanProtocol, StationProtocol, LocalProtocol.
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Note that broadcast IP-dest Pia packets are accepted - this can be used to target every device on the network which is using Pia (which is really only useful with LanProtocol due to the filtering mentioned above, unless one also handles StationProtocol).
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Note that broadcast IP-dest Pia packets are accepted - this can be used to target every device on the network which is using Pia (which is really only useful with {above protocols} due to the filtering mentioned above, unless one also handles StationProtocol).
    
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