It seems appropriate to forward this. I'll also forward if there's any additional followup.
Clearly though, Starcraft DOES work through the IPcop box, and from what I read here, it's safe to assume that forwarding the ports is all that will be required. Kev. > To: ipcop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 9:00 AM > Subject: [IPCop-user] Help Starcraft IP Forwarding > > > > I installed IPCop for the first time on my home system to test it out. > > I am very pleased with everything except this. > > > > When I play Starcraft my connection is very laggy. Looking into the > > Battle.net site I've discovered that I require port 6112 both TCP and > > UDP open and forwarded to the gaming machine. I've forwarded the port > > to the machine but I still get the lag. I've given external service to > > this port and I still get the lag. > > > > Now looking into this I tried to open port 80 to the outside to test > > things out. Now port forwarding alone was not enough for my system to > > show port 80 open from the outside world, I had to enable the port > > "external service access" then I was able to check to see that port 80 > > was open. However once I added port 6112, port 80 was stealth again and > > hidden from the outside world. It seams that if I make any > > modifications to the forwarding I loss access to previous ports I've > > opened. > > > > Does anyone have this problem and know how to solve it? > > > > Is this a bug? > > > > How can I test all my ports access? > > > > How can I get rid of this lag in Starcraft? > > > > Am I doing anything wrong? If so what am I missing? > > > > I wish to have a web-server and a ftp-server on my system eventually so > > I do require the ports to be open eventually. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Jason > > > > > > > Jason, > > I can say that you are correct about having to open AND forward a port. > Simply opening it only gets the data as far as IP-Cop. Simply Forwarding it > has no effect. It's only when you open and forward a port that the data > reaches it's destination. > > I am however worried about your IP-Cop, it seems like there may be something > a bit wrong. Data should travel through it with almost no lag, not > significant compared with the rest of the Internet. Also changing one port > setting should not affect others. > > It may be worth a re-install now you have more experience. > > Regards, > Wayland.
