opening ports problem

Amnesia

Amnesia

Amnesia

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Hi
i'm trying to open ports on the thompson (718?) router that comes with BE broadband ...the port im trying to open is 6112.

the problem part is.....every time i open the port and assign it to my computer it's fine but when i assign the ports to the secondary computer it closes the ports to my computer.

is there any way i can open the port to both computers ? they are both connected to the bebox.
 
there must be a work around....we play left for dead 2 on seperate machines and connect to others across the internet.

yet with forged alliance this port forwarding is stopping us.
 
proven wrong already sorry.

i guess u can always turn off the firewall and rely on software based ones.
 
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theron said:
proven wrong already sorry.

i guess u can always turn off the firewall and rely on software based ones.
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yeah i tried that but it seems the bebox firewall doesnt want to go down.
i disabled the router firewall and windows too and when i done a scan at shields up....it had made no changes....most ports were still in stealth.
 
Amnesia said:
there must be a work around....we play left for dead 2 on seperate machines and connect to others across the internet.
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Yeah, use a different port. When you play L4D2, you're not forwarding ports to two different machines.
You just can't do it. It's part of how NAT works...
 
problem is the game uses port 6112 for the connections so if i use a different port on mine then i wont be able to connect because 6112 is blocked for me.

if only the damn router firewall would disable.
 
yeah i think my bro has one of those sky ones spare....i'l try picking that up tomorrow and see if i have any luck


thanks for the replies guys...atleast i know it cant be done and saved several hours googling.
 
just wondering is there a common UDP port that would be open for all computers on that network that i could use ?
 
It wouldn't be forwarded for "all computers" anyway. Another router won't help and neither would disabling the firewall; you need more public IPs and no NAT.
 
ok so we can all play using hamachi....if we wanted to take hamachi out of the equation, how difficult would it be to setup our own vpn and play like that ?

i have very little knowledge in vpn, is it something a noob like me could do ?
 
I dont understand this. You don't need forwarded ports to use steam games, steam does everything for you. does steam run on both pcs at the same time?
 
supreme commander forged alliance is not a steam game.
the way the game is made, every computer needs to connect with each other so they update each other, rather than all connecting to 1 server and getting updates from the server.


my problem is that you can only forward 1 port to 1 computer and there are 2 of us who want to play online.
 
I think you can.

Heres the options;

1. Give both PCs the same internal static IPs (Ofcourse you can then only use one at once)
2. Change the inbound port but still route it to 6112 on your LAN side
3. DMZ the PC
 
Oh my bad, post 3 said lfd2.

I wasn't are the speedtouch had double mac functionality, although giving both the same ip would work only 1 could be connected to the router at a time.

Who would design a game to function like this when everyone uses nat, it's like they never even though of upnp :(
 
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