ok so i have a networking problem I think.

[Davood]

Here is the situation

I have a pretty beefy computer acting as the host - if i run eqemu, i can run it out of a vm successfully, even multiple VMs work sucessfully, but no configuration i've tried was able to let me run it from teh host itself?!?!?! wtf right?

here is the configuration

INTERNET -> (2 external ips) -> switch -> 2 routers -> 2 switches -> server (2 nics)

Server has 2 nics, and is connected to both external ips.
If I load two VMs and setup eqemu for each of the external ips, I can run two servers, players can connect to both and it all works great.

If I try and run one server off of the host directly, players are able to connect sometimes, but mostly I get a stream state closed, unable to identify connection before it closed type error messsages.

SOME people can still connect though, which makes it annoying, what is wrong? I don't know. The reason I want to run out of the host is that it seems that the VM is making looting lag really bad for some reason, but running off a "sortof stand alone" box and looting (and other stuff) is instant

If anyone has tips for optimizing my vm (or teachign my noober ass to use linux) that would probably be sufficient

my "server" is windows 7 ultimate, and the VMs ive been succesfull with are win xp 32bit and win7 64bit

Right now i am running the server from a computer that only has one nic and things are lightning fast, but i dont want the additional electricity usage.