Does anyone know how to host a game so other people can join
it.
When I host a game no one can join, and i do have it hosting
on a port.
P.S. I don't have a Firewall.
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 Apr 2 2002, 7:11 pm
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I don't have a Firewall.
But i am using a cable line to connact to the internet off my brother's computer. | |
Then that may be your problem. Your brother's computer is acting like a proxy server to pass requests from the net to you. You don't really have an internet accessable IP address (I'm not talking about the internal network - that's different), but your brother's computer does, so try hosting the game on his computer... the problem will go away then...
[email protected] http://byond.digitalmouse.org | |
Theosco wrote:
I don't have a Firewall. To clarify and add to what digitalmouse said, your brother's computer is the one with the connection, not yours; his is acting like a kind of de facto firewall by believing all inbound traffic is meant for it alone. To illustrate: Traffic flows both ways, in and out. Most of the traffic you use (Web browsing, FTP, etc.) uses it in both directions, but it's your computer that initiates the call, so we call that an outbound connection. When your brother's computer sees this, it sets everything up so that traffic returning to you actually goes to you. On the other hand, what if someone tries to call in (an inbound connection)? They'll reach your brother's computer. Unless it's set up to know that certain calls should go to you, it will try to field them itself--by hanging up, unless it happens to have the exact same port open. Depending on the method you use for connection sharing, it may or may not be possible to reroute traffic to you. (Chances are, it is.) What you basically need to do, then, is get into the program that configures connection sharing, and tell it that incoming traffic on certain ports should go to your machine. Ports like, say, 6000 through 6005. Then always host your games on one of those ports, and you can put your pager on another. Lummox JR | |
Yup, if you read the hosting support it says you cannot host over a NAT server, although there may be some ways to fix it up so you can, Having your brother permission of course. Try reading the hosting support and see if that helps.
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See http://www.byond.com/docs/howto/byond_network.html if you still have any questions.
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Theosco wrote:
I don't have a Firewall. I have cable too and if using Windows, it doesn't really allow for a NAT, so I downloaded this software and paid the shareware fee, and it works great! http://www.winroute.com LJR Ps. It cost to reg. but u got 30 days trail to make sure it will fix your problems. I recommend this to anyone using windows having problems hosting. | |
LordJR wrote:
http://www.winroute.com a good program, but I believe there are freeware programs out there too... check: http://www.webattack.com/freeware/freeware.shtml http://www.mediahorizon.com/ usually they have something if you dig around long enough... | |
Are you sure you don't have a firewall? If no one can join your game, clearly something is blocking them, and firewalls are pretty much the only things that do that on a general basis. (A misconfigured switch could be part of the problem too, but those usually have firewalls anyway.)
Lummox JR