Author Topic: Multiplayer via TCP/IP behind a router... (Read 9280 times)

silverion · « **on:** February 01, 2004, 11:49:13 PM »

K then problem people are having with routers is that the router changes the IP that outpost 2 recognizes itself with, and it tries to find/create games on the network instead of on the internet.

This can be gone around, however. I submitted an idea for a patch a while ago that modified the recognized TCP/IP address of Outpost 2. If you change that IP address to your real IP address, TCP/IP WILL WORK! ... I think anyway.

Dunno, someone told me some people were already workin on this... not quite sure what the deal is...

Leviathan · « **Reply #1 on:** February 02, 2004, 08:38:55 AM »

if ur router can enable DMZ it enables people to play behind their router. some people on IRC do this.

plymoth45 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 02, 2004, 09:22:21 AM »

i have the DMZ ip setting set to my local ip, 10.0.0.9, and it works really well, i just can't host

RipperKhan · « **Reply #3 on:** February 02, 2004, 10:45:25 PM »

hmm should, i didnt have that problem but i had port opened up to though

silverion · « **Reply #4 on:** February 03, 2004, 06:23:26 PM »

Does it matter what I set my DMZ to?

xfir · « **Reply #5 on:** February 03, 2004, 06:27:18 PM »

Should be the computer you are going to use to play Outpost 2.

plymoth45 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 03, 2004, 07:02:34 PM »

the DMZ on ur modem/router should be set for whtever you set your comp's ip to, like wht i have done it set my local ip to 10.0.0.9, and my modem's DMZ is set to 10.0.0.9, while the modem gateway is 10.0.0.2

LastofEden · « **Reply #7 on:** February 04, 2004, 06:25:34 PM »

I have another problem related to my IP address. I found out that my internal address is different from my external one. How can I fix that?

gpgarrettboast · « **Reply #8 on:** February 04, 2004, 08:44:19 PM »

Maybe disable your internal network protocal. if that's the one you use for the router, you'll have to set it up to use it as a Gateway somehow...

plymoth45 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 05, 2004, 09:33:10 AM »

thats wht my prob was, but if you do wht i said in the last post, ur ips are still different, but it enables you to play through the router.

selfdestruct · « **Reply #10 on:** February 10, 2004, 11:50:49 PM »

But when u use dmz you are still not able to host games which is very anyoing and if the members who are on all are using dmz how are you going to play. I fell this problem should be addressed and delt with and alos in the future of op2 Or 3 multiplayer games.

BlackBox · « **Reply #11 on:** February 11, 2004, 02:55:08 PM »

Ok. Changing the IP address will not work.

UDP is a non routable protocol.

The only way around it is using systems that send packets in streams (ie. VPN, the replacement DLL I'm working on), or systems that forward the packets to one and only one computer (DMZ, etc)

Edit: To learn about the replacement DLL which WILL solve the problem, look in the programming forum.

Kiith Somtaaw · « **Reply #12 on:** February 13, 2004, 06:36:49 AM »

Whats a DMZ?

xfir · « **Reply #13 on:** February 13, 2004, 07:43:35 AM »

DMZ is a type of method, so to speak, that tells your router that any packets that are not already forwarded should be sent to a specific IP.

Make sure your local computer IP hasn't changed. If it did, you may have to update your DMZ setting.

plymoth45 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 13, 2004, 09:17:12 AM »

or, set ur default gateway and prefered DNS server to the router's ip, but just don't let ur ISP change any settings on u, or u will end up like me, my ISP has responded, and when i get home today, i'm going to try to play op2, athey said try my games again, i can play mohaa online now, and i'm hoping i can op2 now too.

BlackBox · « **Reply #15 on:** February 13, 2004, 02:22:46 PM »

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Whats a DMZ?

This is for all people that are wondering.

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Short for demilitarized zone, a computer or small subnetwork that sits between a trusted internal network, such as a corporate private LAN, and an untrusted external network, such as the public Internet.
Typically, the DMZ contains devices accessible to Internet traffic, such as Web (HTTP ) servers, FTP servers, SMTP (e-mail) servers and DNS servers.

So basically that "zone" is your computer.

Kiith Somtaaw · « **Reply #16 on:** February 15, 2004, 02:09:47 PM »

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Whats a DMZ?
This is for all people that are wondering.

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Short for demilitarized zone, a computer or small subnetwork that sits between a trusted internal network, such as a corporate private LAN, and an untrusted external network, such as the public Internet.
Typically, the DMZ contains devices accessible to Internet traffic, such as Web (HTTP ) servers, FTP servers, SMTP (e-mail) servers and DNS servers.

So basically that "zone" is your computer.

Yeah I've see the site and read the same thing,
but it still doesn't Explain what I need to do to access the DMZ!

plymoth45 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 15, 2004, 02:14:29 PM »

how you do it at my place, put the ip of the router into the web brouser

xamlit · « **Reply #18 on:** February 15, 2004, 04:58:54 PM »

Whats the big deal? All you have to do is map some certain ports to your computer from the router/server. Levi provided me with those ports and now I can join TCP/IP games over my network flawlessly.

It's serious, but its not that serious.

Map these ports to your computer :

   15102
   15101
   47777
   47800
   47776

I think two of them are for the op2 client, not sure though.

They are all udp.

plymoth45 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 15, 2004, 05:34:48 PM »

doesn't work that way for some of us

xamlit · « **Reply #20 on:** February 15, 2004, 05:37:23 PM »

Have you tried before? Because I have not seen those ports posted here.

BlackBox · « **Reply #21 on:** February 15, 2004, 07:24:23 PM »

15101-15102 aren't needed, those are the client UDP ports.

There are more ports that OP2 uses, the OP2 manual says what they are (somewhere it gives info about firewalls and to allow UDP on ports, the port numbers are in hex (you have to convert them to decimal))

I know it uses all of the ports, I watched OP2 with a packet sniffer once.

xamlit · « **Reply #22 on:** February 15, 2004, 10:39:32 PM »

Same here, but the ports I provided I believe are specifically for joining games behind a firewall. Hey, it works for me. Whats the difference between my setup and anyone elses.

Kiith Somtaaw · « **Reply #23 on:** February 16, 2004, 10:58:52 AM »

How do you map them?

BlackBox · « **Reply #24 on:** February 16, 2004, 01:29:09 PM »

however you access the config for your particular router.

I think for some routers, you type in the IP address of the router into the web browser and set settings from there.

Also, you can set the DMZ there.

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