Hi,
i have a router and want to run a gaming server. I have opened loads of ports on my Virtual Server confiuration and it still does not work. Noone outside of my network can join.

If anyone can suggest any ports incase i have missed some that would be great. Also if anyone has any other solloutions on what i can do anything will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Miles

If the router has a firewall built in, on most models it can be turned off, thats most likely your problem, not always opening ports works. Also any software firewall installed on your machine may be causing a problem.

Ok, It sounds like you are having the same problems I had. First you need to find out which ports you need to open. Thios can be done by running your game in the background and using a program called TCPView. It queries all of the ports that are listening for a command or communicating. Find the ones bound to your game and write them down. Now you need to create a static IP for your machine, to use port forewarding on your NAT/Firewall(router). Your Router should have some type of static DHCP control. On most of them you enter your network cards MAC address and assign an IP to that MAC address. And each time the computer requests an IP then the Router's DHCP will assign it the same IP address. OK now for the ports your wrote down earlier. You goto your port-forewarding section of your router. In your Case it looks like its the Virtual Server. You enter the ports you need to use and bind them all to the static IP address you assigned in DHCP. Keep the Public and Private ports the same if it asks you about them. This Port-forewarding tells your router to listen on the ports you specified and if they receive any packets on the ports then the firewall passes them to the machine with that IP address. Hope this Helps and feel free to email me to further troubleshoot the problem. I remember I had to do this exact setup when putting up an FTP server behind a NAT/Firewall. Good Luck!

hi,

sorry but this didn't work either!!!
I dont beilive it
nothing seems to work on this damn router.

Any more suggestions please
thanks,
Miles

what kinda router you got? some routers you can't open ports ! 2nd thing to check if you are runing windows XP your local network firewall is not on either if it is no one will be able to connect ! in order to disable in XP right click on my network then local area network properties then click on advance you will see it says firewall on uncheck that ! let me know if that works

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It is a Conexant PAE-CE81/84 router.
Yes i can forward ports as i have forwaded them its just noone can get in lol.

Yes the windows xp firewall has been disabled for a long time. and i have no other firewall software running.

Miles