On Lundi 28 Mai 2001 20:15, Florin Grad wrote :
> Stephen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Does enyone know what I ahve to do to get StartCraft working through the
> > Firewall?
> > When I try to get on to Battle net it comes back with the error that it
> > can't process UDP packets through port 6112. I went into the firewall
> > settings page and opened up UDP port 6112 but it still isn't working. Any
> > ideas?
>
> Hi there,
>
> as usual in such cases, you should activate the log of the rejected
> packets in System properties->Alert and the allow what the blocked ones.
>
> So, you should get the error messages from the firewall and not from the
> game.
I would add that ports are often negociated and so do not have a fixed value.
Sometimes one must open all high ports ( 1024: ) to have an online game
work. Sometimes a range of ports is enough (say 6000:7000 for instance).
> cheers,
regards, :-)
Renaud
