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To confirm that it's working, you can go to the multiplayer map at; http://mpmap02.flightgear.org/ (in Hong Kong). Once FlightGear has started, you will notice chat messages that say "Hello" indicating pilots that are online and then as they join (you can change this message by editing the <tt><chat type="string">Hello</chat></tt> line in <tt>[[$FG ROOT]]/preferences.xml</tt>). You may wish to use a different server (i.e. "Hostname" entry).  

For more advanced settings, the <tt>Advanced > Network</tt> tab can be opened. You are able to remove the in or out lines only through this method for example.

== Using fgfs from the command line ==

First, for those who are very impatient and have a vague idea about what they're doing, the basic arguments to pass to fgfs for multiplayer are these;

  --multiplay=out,10,server.ip.address,5000

  --callsign=anything

where 5000 is the port number the server is listening on (which is 5000 for the official servers).

If you for some reason need to specify which local port and/or interface FlightGear should use add the following argument:

  --multiplay=in,10,your.ip.address,portnumber