Opening Ports on my router

Johnny|lucidcomposure

Johnny|lucidcomposure

Johnny|lucidcomposure

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How do I do it. I have a list of ports I need open for battlefield to work properly:

CP Ports:

*
80
*
443
*
4711
*
9964
*
1024-1124
*
17475
*
18000
*
18300
*
29900
*
27900
*
28910

UDP Ports:

*
9964
*
16567
*
1024-1124
*
1500-4999
*
18000
*
18300
*
18510
*
27900
*
27901
*
28910
*
29900
*
55123

I Dont know how to do it for my router

Its a Netgear DG834
 
Fstop11 said:
It does. What does it do
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Automatically opens the ports when needed without having to open them manually.

They close once the application has finished using the ports required.
 
UPNP automatically maps ports as and when required according to the application.

You can either disable UPNP service, UPNP on the software, UPNP on the router and manually enter in LAN IP and required ports. I did this on a DG814.

Or enable UPNP service, UPNP on the software, UPNP on the router. It should pickup UPNP protocol automatically. ie Utorrent. I've done this on my new Billion router, can't get manual port forwarding setup correctly. But it works.
 
You're assuming the app supports uPnP in the first place.

On the other hand, it's extremely unlikely you need to forward any of those ports for a game to work properly unless you're trying to run a server.
 
i'm sure they are for outgoing traffic and not incoming, for games online you shouldn't need to open ports to your machine, i've never had to on whatever router ive been using. As a rule, router ports need to be open only if people connect to you, not if you connect to them, not always the case but...... :)
 
Any other firewalls? Tried disabling them?
Does the game need any tinkering to work behind NAT?

mike1210 said:
i'm sure they are for outgoing traffic and not incoming
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Other way round :p
 
tolien said:
Other way round :p
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but if hes connecting to a server rather than hosting, it would be those ports need to be opened on EA's server, hence his outgoing traffic needs return data from all these ports outoing, IIRC home routers act as a default deny but in 99% of cases all outgoing traffic is returned. :)

and also, why on earth does that game need to make connections on all those ports, seems a bit overkill and likely to kill lesser able routers :(
 
mike1210 said:
but if hes connecting to a server rather than hosting, it would be those ports need to be opened on EA's server, hence his outgoing traffic needs return data from all these ports outoing, IIRC home routers act as a default deny but in 99% of cases all outgoing traffic is returned. :)

and also, why on earth does that game need to make connections on all those ports, seems a bit overkill and likely to kill lesser able routers :(
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No, toilen is right. He is never wrong :)

If he has the application on his machine, then the outgoing traffic is allowed out, but the incoming traffic is blocked. Hence the connection will be blocked. :D
 
An unsolicited incoming connection would be blocked without an allow/forwarding rule - other traffic would be allowed by NAT/SPI et al.
 
tolien said:
An unsolicited incoming connection would be blocked without an allow/forwarding rule - other traffic would be allowed by NAT/SPI et al.
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yes, but it seems a bit odd that tcp 80 and 443 (http sever and https server?????) need to be open to play this online, if i get time i will try this game demo on my linksys and 877 and see what results i get
 
mike1210 said:
yes, but it seems a bit odd that tcp 80 and 443 (http sever and https server?????) need to be open to play this online, if i get time i will try this game demo on my linksys and 877 and see what results i get
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Them ports must be if your running a game server on your network. Not to acctually play the game.

80 - http
443 - https

They will be if the game has a web interface to configure maps e.t.c.

I am sure that guide is for if your hosting a server :p
 
Ok boys and girls, I have installed the demo of battle field 2142 on my computer, modifed ACL's on the 877 to allow all traffic out, but none in, so NO open ports on my router.

Did it play online......YES it did, my ping was around the 40-45 mark and i played for 10 minutes, i was able to interact and shoot people and the like. The outoing port used was a UDP port around 15500 or soemthing like that

so it may be ticky router issue or software firewall or a dodgy line????
 
zen62619 said:
If he has the application on his machine, then the outgoing traffic is allowed out, but the incoming traffic is blocked. Hence the connection will be blocked. :D
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maybe for speech and the like, only unsolicited would be blocked, rest would remembered by the router and allowed back in by either state tables or session timeouts for UDP, but still that guide is very misleading
 
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Round and round we go.

mike1210 said:
see post number 10
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You still had them round the wrong way, and most of the rest of what you said I said umpteen posts ago? :confused:
 
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