hey m0gely, Just what exactly was the extra nat rule you applied?
quote from m0gely, "Thanks to a couple people on the linux list I only had to add an extra NAT rule to force the port to remain static. Problem solved." ----- Original Message ----- From: "m0gely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] server showing up in steam for others to join > OoksServer wrote: > > > 5) Don't go opening a whole bunch of ports. The only incoming port you need > > is 27015 (or the port you specified for your server). All other ports are > > outgoing ports and are psuedo-random by hlds and will be assigned by your > > router. > > I would like to add to this. I use an OpenBSD box for my home > firewall/gateway. In my case the server was using port 27015 on the > internal IP. I had a NAT rule to forward that port on the external IP > to the internal IP. Now, that would seem to be all I needed to do, but > it wasn't showing up on the list. However the server could be joined by > manually connecting to my ext_IP:27015. > > The problem was OpenBSD was seeing my server send out the info on portThanks to a couple people on the linux list I only had > to add an extra NAT rule to force the port to remain static. Problem > solved. > 27015 to the master servers but it was randomizing the port. So the > master list got some wacked out port number not 27015 and thus ignored > it (my guess). > > But I have no idea how you would check to see if a little SOHO NAT box > like one from Linksys or Netgear is also doing that. With a shell I > have commands I can run to see what's going on. > > -- > - m0gely > http://quake2.telestream.com/ > Q2 | Q3A | Counter-strike > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
