TCP/IP Games...
 

Hmmm..... I was wondering if any of ya'll could help me out here. Me and my bro just bought SE4 Gold and we live an hour apart, so we wanted to start a IP game. But when we set everything up just like the book and stuff says to do it won't let either one of us connect to the host. I tried being host and it wouldn't let him connect, then he tried being host and same thing happened. Do any of you know what's happening here? But when I tried the game between my computer and my parents computer it worked just fine through IP connection. What's wrong? If any of you could help I'd be thankful!

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Are either of you running a NAT firewall or something like Zone Alarm?

That is probably the issue.

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Well I thought we weren't, but I forgot that I had a firewall set up. That explains it, thanks for suggesting that though.

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You can still play with a firewall, you just need to open up certain ports.

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Is there any hope of getting TCP/IP play to
work through a NAT firewall? I haven't
managed to get it working, even putting
my machine in the DMZ.

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People say they are putting their machine in the DMZ... I rather thought that meant in front of the firewall, no? Therefore, your problem would be something else at that point.

PvK

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Hmmm do you know what ports I would have to open?

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Ragnarok:
Hmmm do you know what ports I would have to open?<hr></blockquote>

They are listed somewhere in the back of the manual IIRC but don't ask me were exactly.

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by [K126]Mephisto:


They are listed somewhere in the back of the manual IIRC but don't ask me were exactly.<hr></blockquote>

Page 96 of manual, UPD Messages on port 6716 and files on port 6720.

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Ok, I opened the ports that it said to open. But it says the same thing? Anything that's being done wrong?... Let me know. Thanks!