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Originally Posted by weedarr Uhm doesnt it enable LAN (local area network) mode? So you can play over your Local Area Network. Like if I open a server with lan mode 1 then someone using the same router (network) as me can connect without having to do so through the internet.

I also thought so in my early samp days, but lanmode has nothing to do with lan itself. It mainly changes the network update rates (or changed it, i think it was deactivated some time ago and now has no function at all). Now there are the *_tick options in the config that do this.

The server itself is always open on all available IPs (unless you use bind with multiple network interfaces). When in the same network, packets will never go "through the internet", as the external IP is the router itself, and the router readdresses those packets to the assigned local ip.
If the router shouldnt filter this by itself, the packets will just go to the next node, and then get sent back to the router, increasing ping by something like 0.5-1ms. But theres no software way to prevent this, a server running in some network cant tell the router to redirect packages, just the router itself can.