Question about smoothwall

Spanky · Post by **Spanky** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 11:22 pm

I have been just running on a linksys router, and putting the server on the DMZ because, as I see many other comments on here linksys sucks. But i'm now switching to a smoothwall router / firewall, if im reading things right even the machine's you put on the DMZ card still need to have the ports forwarded. So i'm running on port 5159, so I would forward this port on both TCP / UDP ?? I thought I read somewhere that you need to forward a certain span of ports for how many players you have connected?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Spanky · Post by **Spanky** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 10:09 pm

Bueller....Bueller....anybody....

If nothing else could someone try my server and tell me if they can get on? I can see it on the server list, and I can connect to it but Im on the lan.

Please and Thank you. Spanky

orchid · Post by **orchid** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 11:58 pm

Spanky, I get an "error connecting to server"
what version are you running? it looks like your running bzfs 1.7e6? Could you upgrade to g2 maybe to start?

When I ran server's I would forward 5155 & 5156 that worked fine for me, your running on 5159 i think, so maybe forward 5160 also, and finally check that some other service isnt using that port range, other than that I.m out of suggestions.

I belive, but am not sure, that the next release (1.9) will only require one port to forward.

Spanky · Post by **Spanky** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 12:32 am

Thanks for the response bzgirl. At least that gives me somewhere to start. I will try your suggestions.

Thnks, Spanky

Spanky · Post by **Spanky** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 1:42 pm

Ok, with help from learner and Fiber on IRC, I figured out that I needed to open other ports. To eliminate confusion I changed the server back to the default port (5155). So on my firewall I had to open 5155, 5156, and then the ports 17200 - 172XX with 172XX being how many players there are. Everything seems to work great now.

freebird1963 · Post by **freebird1963** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:30 am

did you have to open udp or tcp or both ?

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:35 am

this post is from over a year ago. I doubt they will answer.

the current version uses both TCP and UDP. It now uses the same port for UDP as it does for TCP. So to run a server you just need the single port open.