/* HINT: Search archives @ http://www.indyramp.com/masq/ before posting! */ Okay.. My problem is three-fold... First, some background info. The masq'd box on a cable modem, Linux 2.2.10, has the FSGS (pseudo-Battle.Net server) running on it. Parties from both outside and inside the network can talk to the fsgs server, and chatting works fine (two people outside, and three people behind the masq'd box). The server is listening on the external IP address. However, if someone on the inside wants to host a game, no one outside the firewall can see it. This sorta makes sense. But, if I'm the only one inside my LAN, and x people are outside, I could use portfw'ing to statically map the used ports to my machine, correct? Well, I tried that. I couldn't talk to the fsgs server using the external IP address (since it would just re-route back to my own machine). I was told that battle.net (or fsgs) uses tcp during the chat mode, and then switches to udp for the game (or vice versa). So I tried forwarding only one tcp (and then only udp) packets on port 6112, but it didn't seem to work. Any ideas? Can fsgs listen on more than one IP address, an external and internal one? Second problem is that when we got a 5 player game going, 2 outside, 3 inside, with someone outside the FW hosting, the game was EXTREMELY slow.. But when the other two inside LAN quit, the game sped up to blazingly fast speeds! Now, you might think that it's their computers that are lagging.. Well, I played games internally over ipx, and they were just fine, which rules out their computers being slow, and also rules out the network card being flaky. Any ideas why this is happening? Third problem, is that during that 5 player game. The people inside the LAN could communicate with people outside, but we couldn't chat each other during the game. (in the Chat rooms, it worked fine). So, has anyone else seen problems like this, and/or knows how to fix them? Cheers, Will _______________________________________________ Masq maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin requests can be handled at http://www.indyramp.com/masq-list/ or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE read the HOWTO and search the archives before posting. You can start your search at http://www.indyramp.com/masq/ Please keep general linux/unix/pc/internet questions off the list.
