I'm currently running 2.2.19 on an old 486 of mine that has been doing a great job of running ipchains on it to masq (NAT) my dial-up connection. When I wanted to play a game online, however, I would switch my dial-up to the Windows box and play it from there to avoid any port forwarding issues.
Now that I've upgraded to cable, I plan to run my gw box all the time and have been successful in forwarding ports to any game (Provided I can FIND the correct ports.) that I wish to play though the gw. For most games using the following type of lines in my rc.firewall will do the job. # Unreal Tournament # For Gameplay ipmasqadm autofw -A -r udp 7777 7781 -v # For the Master Server List ipmasqadm autofw -A -r udp 27900 27900 -v The nice thing about using autofw is that I do not have to specify a target IP and thus anyone who plugs into my LAN will be able to play UT over the LAN and on the internet. The thing is thou, this formula does not seem to carry over to one game, which happens to be my favorite. It's Age of Kings, and yes, go figure, it's a MS product. This works: port=2300 while [ $port -le 2400 ] do /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L my.ip.is.here $port -R 192.168.0.23 $port /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P udp -L my.ip.is.here $port -R 192.168.0.23 $port port=$((port+1)) done /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L my.ip.is.here 47624 -R 192.168.0.23 47624 /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P udp -L my.ip.is.here 47624 -R 192.168.0.23 47624 This does not: ipmasqadm autofw -A -v -r udp 2300 2400 ipmasqadm autofw -A -v -r tcp 2300 2400 ipmasqadm autofw -A -v -r tcp 47624 47624 ipmasqadm autofw -A -v -r udp 47624 47624 Now I've done games such as UT the other way as well, using portfw to manually forward each port to a specified internal IP, and that works. But as I said before, it does limit the game to being run only on that IP and not across the whole LAN. Any ideas on what the issue might be would be appricated. --mjz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
