Let me give you guys a little bit of my BG first......i'm a high school kid whos the king of computer dorks. i run a Linuz Mandrake 7.X system on an old 133 mHZ machine, and use it as a samba server on my network. I also run an apache HTTP server off of it. Adjusting my router settings, i managed to give trafic comming to that my ip access to the server. in short, i have a website in my basement (http://68.81.153.133).

Recently, a few friends asked me to launch a Half Life server. being somewhat of a half life fan, i said yes. When the server starts up, i get the WON Auth message, but any time someome tries to connect to my game, i get a message on my console saying "NET SEND ERROR: COMMAND NOT FOUND" or something liek that . please help
~Brian

firewall?
ports?
just a guess...

just to update the problem, the exact message it give me goes:

SET send_packet ERROR

this just baffles me

The so called King of Computer Dorks would know the answer. Since you don't know it, I must now take the title. There's some problem on Valve's side today, and many cannot connect to servers. It's not something you can fix. Valve has had problems like this before. This will be fixed soon.