Well, I had Simconnect working just fine. AS2012 and PlanG were both running on my Client and life was good. So, I did not run the client for about a month and when I attempted to run it again, suddenly Simconnect will no longer connect.

 

I did some quick investigation and checking simconnect.xml on the server and simconnect.cfg on the client every thing look fine. I checked my server IP and discovered my IPv4 had changed, so I quickly edited the .xml and the .cfg and thought every thing would be fine. Wrong! I still cannot connect.

 

Any ideas?

 

Here are my Simconnect files:

 

simconnect.xml

 

p<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<SimBase.Document Type="SimConnect" version="1,0">
<Descr>SimConnect</Descr>
<Filename>SimConnect.xml</Filename>
<SimConnect.Comm>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Protocol>IPv6</Protocol>
<Scope>link-local</Scope>
<MaxClients>64</MaxClients>
<Address>fe80::35a3:b41:6f3c:8e16</Address>
<Port>4506</Port>
</SimConnect.Comm>
<SimConnect.Comm>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Protocol>IPv4</Protocol>
<Scope>global</Scope>
<Address>192.168.1.114</Address>
<MaxClients>64</MaxClients>
<Port>500</Port>
<MaxRecvSize>4096</MaxRecvSize>
<DisableNagle>False</DisableNagle>
</SimConnect.Comm>
<SimConnect.Comm>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Protocol>Auto</Protocol>
<Scope>local</Scope>
</SimConnect.Comm>
</SimBase.Document>

 

simconnect.cfg

 

[simConnect]
Protocol=IPv4
Address=192.168.1.114
Port=500
MaxReceiveSize=4096
DisableNagle=0

Just to add to the mystery, (or possibly clarify it?), I have determined that Plan G which is using IPv4 is actually connecting to simconnect. What this means is that IPv6 is working and IPv4 which AS2012 uses is not. Perhaps that is a clue, but I am still at a loss.

Just to add to the mystery, (or possibly clarify it?), I have determined that Plan G which is using IPv4 is actually connecting to simconnect. What this means is that IPv6 is working and IPv4 which AS2012 uses is not. Perhaps that is a clue, but I am still at a loss.

 

Dont quite understand this statement. Plan G uses IPv4? AS2012 uses IPv4? None of my simconnect devices use IPv6, otherwise they are all IPv4. Not even sure how to use IPv6 in the network settings. If i recall its a strange protocol.

Dont quite understand this statement. Plan G uses IPv4? AS2012 uses IPv4? None of my simconnect devices use IPv6, otherwise they are all IPv4. Not even sure how to use IPv6 in the network settings. If i recall its a strange protocol.

 

IPv6 is no harder to use than IPv4 and Plan G gives the choice of IPv6 or IPv4 or WideFS. Just look under options - fs connections. Any way IPv6 has stopped working again and IPv4 still won't work, so I am getting fed up with simconnect. I have re-run simconnect.msi on the client, reinstalled Accelration and the SDK SPv1a on the server with no luck. I just wish AS2012 would use WideFS and I could be done with Simconnect.

Hi remilton,

 

Not sure if this will help or not, but I figured I'd throw this out there just in case it does help. I fly FSX using 2 pc's. 1 is my main flying machine, and the second runs a few of my saitek panels and FSWidgets GMap. My modem was recently changed out by my ISP, and the new one is also a router, so it has taken over DHCP duties. Now neither machine will keep an IP address unless I set them manually (which I really don't want to have to do.) Needless to say, anytime I boot my main pc (Host machine), the stuff attached to the client wouldn't function until I got the new IP from the host machine, then updated all the simconnect files on both machines. Anyhow, I found out that, at least when using IPv4 for the 'address' entry, I was able to use the name of the pc instead of an actual IP address. Since making this change, I no longer have problems with the client machine connecting.

 

So on the host, in the simconnect.xml, the "<address>" for me is "George-PC", and on the client, in the simconnect.cfg file(s), the "address=" is also set to "George-PC".

 

I'm not on my main pc right now, but the address field was the only thing I needed to change, so everything else was left to defaults, including IPv4.

 

As long as none of your programs *require* IPv6, you may be able to just use IPv4 and the host computer's name to get your simconnect connecting again.

 

Good luck, and I hope this is helpful in some way.

 

-George

Thanks for the tip George, unfortunately it does not fix my problem. The pc's are networked correctly and simconnect is installed correctly, The simconnect just quit working one day. I have a few more things to try, but the list is getting short. Thanks again.

-Ron