[Bug]: New commandline to add for Squad v7.0

[tomypc88]

User story

New commandline to add from the last update.

Game

Squad

Linux distro

Ubuntu 18.04

Command

command: start

Further information

The v7.0.0 update has been pushed live to the server branch.

Information bellow come from the Offworld Hosting discord.

New requirements for your commandline
Add -beaconport=15000 to your commandline - if you have more than 1 server, increase this number (no two beacon ports on the same port binding)

With the EOS Update, you may need to open up the beacon port on your machines. By default this is port 15000. You should open a range, similar to the game port of 15000-15022. You can hard specify a server to use a specific beacon port by passing in -beaconport=150XX when launching the server. This is a UDP Port

You don't necessarily need to change your beacon port, but if you're running multiple instances of a Squad Server on one IP, you can have users connecting to the incorrect server.

Relevant log output

No response

Steps to reproduce

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[ML0B]

The LGSM monitor scripts fails since the new port (beaconport) 15000 for EOS (Epic Online Services) was introduced, which means if your run ./squadserver monitor manually or via crontab, it will falsely report the server as down and restart it, which is quite annoying if you run it every 5 minutes in crontab as per the installation instructions.

[dgibbs64]

I am taking a look at this issue currently.

[dgibbs64]

I have raised an issue with gamedig and hopfully they will be able to get querying working with EOS but it looks like gamedig will be required as I doubt I will get it working with gsquery gamedig/node-gamedig#545

[dgibbs64]

Expect this fix when gamedig v5 is released and the next version of LinuxGSM comes out. #4483

[ML0B]

Just verified on my server(s) and the monitor scripts works as intended for Squad now. Thank you!