Hey Jesse, Thanks for the fast response & explanation on Valve logic. :) I've disabled Source TV, so I guess I can keep that port and the steamport shut. Also kudos to you for wrench!
Kr, T 2014-07-24 12:31 GMT+02:00 Jesse Molina <[email protected]>: > > Remember that srcds was written for Windows, and on Windows, 26000 > actually is in the ephemeral port range, because Microsoft. > > Why Valve thought it was appropriate to run their servers in the ephemeral > range? Because potato. > > > > > On 7/24/14, 3:27, Jesse Molina wrote: > >> >> Unless I am mistaken, that's an "ephemeral" port, in that it's used for >> outbound traffic only. So, I don't think you need to explicitly allow >> inbound traffic to it, as long as you have a stateful firewall. >> >> I believe that is true of both CLIENTPORT (+clientport) and STEAMPORT >> (-steamport). Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here. >> >> No, it isn't documented anywhere. >> >> The only ports you need to allow inbound are HOSTPORT (+hostport) on UDP, >> and then TCP if you want RCON, and TVPORT (+tv_port) if you want Source TV >> to work (probably not). REPLAYPORT isn't even used on TF2 anymore and I'll >> remove it from wrench in the future. >> >> Whatever your assign to STEAMPORT, the server will use N+1, because bugs. >> >> >> >> >> On 7/24/14, 2:25, Thibaud Van Hissenhoven wrote: >> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> I just got into srcds and set up my first cloud server using Mr Molina's >>> great wrench tool. Now that my vanilla L4D2 server is running, I was busy >>> configuring the firewall to allow clients to connect. I noticed the >>> server >>> is accepting connections on port 26006 (opposed to -steamport 26005 set >>> in >>> the arguments), on the developer wiki I couldn't find what this port is >>> used for. Do any of you have experience with this? >>> The srcds is listening for connections here right, so I should open the >>> port in the firewall? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
