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Thank for a post on THE EVIL PC I found the following cvars that you can use in the server.cfg file for Left 4 Dead (and I’m sure most other HLDS games):

sv_maxcmdrate 100
cl_cmdrate 30
cl_updaterate 20
rate 20000
sv_minrate 5000
sv_maxrate 8000

Once I’m sure I have a rock solid server.cfg I’ll post it for others to see. Now on to make my auto-start script for my L4D servers and then a TF2 server.

After spending quite a bit of time wondering how best to manage my HLDS game servers (L4D for now and maybe TF2 or Killing Floor later) I came across HLSW. It’s so far a great tool to have. Now I can share managing these servers with a few of my other Clan members and it’s much easier to ban/kick some one from the server. I am also still looking into using left4deadrcon.
Next I need to setup Cacti to keep track of stats from the server.

Still getting the new server up. Posting a problem I am just now fixing, and figure maybe some one will need this info later.
I had it setup and working in my office (using a private IP on Eth1) and then moved it to the NOC and am using Eth0 with a public IP, but alas I had trouble figuring out how to get the DomU’s routing out through Eth0 vs Eth1. For anyone else ever needing to know this just edit your /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge and change the “netdev=” “vifnum” and “bridge=” accordingly. Remember if you change the “bridge=” field to edit the “vif=” line in the DomU xm config file in /etc/xen/ accordingly also.
Hopefully getting one of the L4D servers running this weekend so we can test this!