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Title: Hosting with a router
Post by: Frank10LR on March 12, 2006, 02:42:25 PM

I have a problem, I can't host a server with the router, i tried to forward the 5121 port or making a DMZ server, but it still doesn't work.

Title: Hosting with a router
Post by: Mo on March 12, 2006, 03:10:28 PM

I need much more information than that to help you.
What is your WAN ip?  What is the local IP of the server?
Do you have a software firewall running on the server, something like Norton Internet security?

Title: Hosting with a router
Post by: Frank10LR on March 12, 2006, 03:26:22 PM

ok, i had this problem to host some other things, anyway i have a netgear router, and zone alarm internet security installed, but the firewall isn't my problem, i think my problem is port forwarding, in fact the ip that nwnserver use is my local ip 192.168.0.2, instead of my real ip...

Title: Hosting with a router
Post by: Frank10LR on March 12, 2006, 04:21:00 PM

Solved problem, thanks anyway :D  The problem was that DHCP was off :lol:
so with DHCP off no port forwarding is possible.

Title: Hosting with a router
Post by: Mo on March 12, 2006, 04:23:15 PM

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ok, i had this problem to host some other things, anyway i have a netgear router, and zone alarm internet security installed, but the firewall isn't my problem, i think my problem is port forwarding, in fact the ip that nwnserver use is my local ip 192.168.0.2, instead of my real ip...

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That's good, it's supposed to use your local ip.
forward port 5121 to 192.168.0.2 for UDP

If you have software firewall on your pc then most probably it would also be blocking the ports.

If you have a problem with your server showing up on Gamespy then your firewall may be preventing that as well.  Try to direct connect and see if that works.

Title: Hosting with a router
Post by: Frank10LR on March 12, 2006, 04:26:14 PM

sorry for the 2 posts, lol we wrote the post at the same time :D  
thanks for your help.

Frankie

Title: Hosting with a router
Post by: Mo on March 12, 2006, 04:36:53 PM

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Solved problem, thanks anyway :D  The problem was that DHCP was off :lol:
so with DHCP off no port forwarding is possible.

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lol well that's not true but I'm glad it helped.  In fact port forwarding with DHCP on is tricky because your server might be assigned a different IP in the future.  In which case you'll have to change your port forwarding again.

Title: Hosting with a router
Post by: Frank10LR on March 12, 2006, 04:44:54 PM

with DHCP i setted up a personal ip to the MAC of my computer, in any case my pc will have 192.168.0.2. (Power of Netgear DG834GT)  :P

Title: Hosting with a router
Post by: Mo on March 12, 2006, 06:28:37 PM

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with DHCP i setted up a personal ip to the MAC of my computer, in any case my pc will have 192.168.0.2. (Power of Netgear DG834GT)  :P

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ok that works