Could you post your Router model and type? It's probably a router configuration problem involving IP Loopback not set correctly.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Tim Fletcher<[email protected]> wrote: > Hopefully I can explain this well enough that people can understand my > question. > > I have a L4D server running on a windows server on my local private network. > It is setup with port forwarding from the router and my friends can connect > from the internet through a lobby to my server with no problems. That is > working fine. Performance is great and pings are pretty good too. > > The problem is I can't connect to my server through a lobby. I can be in a > lobby with my friends and when they start the game they will all connect to > my server but I can't. I know what the problem is and I can work around it > but it would be nice to just connect as that way I can be the lobby leader > and set the game up without having to manually set the server up before > hand. > > The real problem is that when I try to connect through the lobby it trys to > connect to the lobby through my public ip and I assume the router can't > handle that. I can connect to my server fine if I connect manually using the > console to it's local ip. > > So is there any way I can redirect network traffic from my public ip to my > servers local ip either on my router (netgear dg834gt) or on my local > machine or is there anyway to do this in game some how? > > Thanks for any help in advance > _______________________________________________ > 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
