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Currently, PartyBot only supports hooking multiple instances of HonorBuddy on the same computer together. That's unfortunate, because from what I observed PB works simply by TCP/IP. That means the only restriction that keeps you from connecting your HBs between e.g. network computers, VMs or even friends (with Hamachi or similar *** software), is that there is no option to specify the IP address and port of the party leader to connect to.
In this guide I'll explain you how to bypass this restriction by setting up port forwarding between your HonorBuddy instances.
Why would you need to do this instead of just botting on the same computer?
There are many scenarios where this comes in handy. With multiple computers (even dedicated botting machines) at home, you might want to distribute the load between them. Botting with friends is easy like this.
But for me, the most important point is that I don't want my RAF accounts to be logged in from the same machine and IP. That's why I use different a ***** in a different VM for every account. That however comes at the cost of not being able to PartyBot (e.g. for RAF party grinding) anymore.
Requirements
Alright, so let's do this.
General Setup
Download either FPipe (by McAfee, Windows only) or spipe (Opensource, written by me, source and binaries for Linux and Windows provided, compiles on Mac OS aswell) and put the executable in a convenient location such as C:\bin\
Setting up the Leader
Open your first WoW and Honorbuddy instance and put it in e.g. Grinding Bot mode (or Dungeon Bot etc) and activate the Leader Plugin. The Leader Plugin starts a TCP server on port 1337. Our goal is to forward to this from another machine, since the Party Bot connects to localhost:1337.
Now open a command prompt (Start -> Accessories -> Command Prompt or just type cmd.exe on Windows) and enter:
Your output should look similar to this (probably with a couple more adapters):
Now you just have to figure out which adapter you need to use for connecting with your other machine. If you want to connect via LAN, the IP address typically looks like 192.168.x.x or 172.16-32.x.x or 10.x.x.x. Once you figure out the right adapter, write down the IPv4 address and move on the next part of setting up your follower machine.That's all you gotta do on this end. If you want to hook it up through Hamachi etc, make sure that your firewall lets you access port 1337 from outside.
Setting up the Follower
Open a command prompt on the machine that the follower will run on and go to the location of fpipe or spipe:
Now we have to set up the port forwarding. Replace the IP address with the one you wrote down.
spipe:
FPipe:
If everything went ok, it should have started a pipe which forwards all connections from localhost:1337 to 192.168.178.57:1337 (your leader machine).
Now fire up your WoW and HonorBuddy instance on the follower machine and activate the PartyBot.
Press start in boths HBs, enjoy a cold beer and go AFK while the bot is grinding away for you.
In this guide I'll explain you how to bypass this restriction by setting up port forwarding between your HonorBuddy instances.
Why would you need to do this instead of just botting on the same computer?
There are many scenarios where this comes in handy. With multiple computers (even dedicated botting machines) at home, you might want to distribute the load between them. Botting with friends is easy like this.
But for me, the most important point is that I don't want my RAF accounts to be logged in from the same machine and IP. That's why I use different a ***** in a different VM for every account. That however comes at the cost of not being able to PartyBot (e.g. for RAF party grinding) anymore.
Requirements
- Having a need for doing this
- At least bare minimum knowledge of using the command shell and networking
- No firewall between the computers (so if you want to do it across the internet, you'll have to be able to forward the port in your router)
Alright, so let's do this.
General Setup
Download either FPipe (by McAfee, Windows only) or spipe (Opensource, written by me, source and binaries for Linux and Windows provided, compiles on Mac OS aswell) and put the executable in a convenient location such as C:\bin\
Setting up the Leader
Open your first WoW and Honorbuddy instance and put it in e.g. Grinding Bot mode (or Dungeon Bot etc) and activate the Leader Plugin. The Leader Plugin starts a TCP server on port 1337. Our goal is to forward to this from another machine, since the Party Bot connects to localhost:1337.
Now open a command prompt (Start -> Accessories -> Command Prompt or just type cmd.exe on Windows) and enter:
Your output should look similar to this (probably with a couple more adapters):
Now you just have to figure out which adapter you need to use for connecting with your other machine. If you want to connect via LAN, the IP address typically looks like 192.168.x.x or 172.16-32.x.x or 10.x.x.x. Once you figure out the right adapter, write down the IPv4 address and move on the next part of setting up your follower machine.That's all you gotta do on this end. If you want to hook it up through Hamachi etc, make sure that your firewall lets you access port 1337 from outside.
Setting up the Follower
Open a command prompt on the machine that the follower will run on and go to the location of fpipe or spipe:
Now we have to set up the port forwarding. Replace the IP address with the one you wrote down.
spipe:
FPipe:
If everything went ok, it should have started a pipe which forwards all connections from localhost:1337 to 192.168.178.57:1337 (your leader machine).
Now fire up your WoW and HonorBuddy instance on the follower machine and activate the PartyBot.
Press start in boths HBs, enjoy a cold beer and go AFK while the bot is grinding away for you.