darthmahon Posted April 9, 2002 Share Posted April 9, 2002 Ok this is the problem, most of which I know is to do with WinRoute acting like a firewall. Anyway, I'm trying to run a dedicated server from my host computer on my network. My ADSL modem is connected to this computer and I use WinRoute to allow myself to connect to the internet on two other computers from this host. When I start a server on the host computer, I can never see it on my computer when I change the source to Iternet in the server listings. If I change it to local I can see it. I've asked other people to check to see if they could see it and they cannot. I know the problem is WinRoute but how do I get around this problem? I can't turn off WinRoute because then I wouldn't be able to connect to the internet on any of the other computers on the network. I've had a look at their help files and it said something about Port Mapping which I tried but it still does not work. Anyone have any ideas how I can get around this so people can see and join my server online? Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[TE]DarthBob Posted April 9, 2002 Share Posted April 9, 2002 The first thing I would do is just turn off Winroute since your are hosting the game server on the same box as Winroute...right? Just do this to test. If others can see it, then you need to worry about mapping your ports in Winroute. If other can't see it with winroute disabled, then you have another issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthmahon Posted April 10, 2002 Author Share Posted April 10, 2002 Yea I turned WinRoute off and it worked fine. No problems. I'm a bit confused by this whole port mapping thing though. I was looking through their help files and I sort of got what they were saying but I'm not too sure. This is how I have it set up: Protocol: TCP Listen IP: <Unspecified> Listen port: 28070 Destination IP: 217.34.88.*** Destination Port: 28070 I've no idea if that is the correct way to do it. Anyone know exactly what should go where? Should I use my internal IP address or my internet one? Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatrixCPA Posted April 10, 2002 Share Posted April 10, 2002 You need to forward UDP protocol traffic. Give that a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthmahon Posted April 10, 2002 Author Share Posted April 10, 2002 Didn't work changing the Protocol to UDP. Anyone know exactly what should be in the destination ip and input ip bits? should it be my internal ip in either of them? anyone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatrixCPA Posted April 10, 2002 Share Posted April 10, 2002 Protocol: UDP Listen IP: 217.34.88.*** Listen port: 28070 Destination IP: 192.168.0.*** Destination Port: 28070 I'm guessing at your internal ip structure...but I believe that you need to listen on the external ip and forward it to the internal ip for the server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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