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chris_uk

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17th Feb 04 at 12:03

i have a home network and on it we play COD. i have set up a dedicated server on one of the computers at home but now ive found the internet to play on i want to use this online,

i have created a DS (Dedicated Server) and have joined it over the internet, only problem is if someone outside of our home network wants to join they cant. I have given them our ip so they can join directly but it doesnt seem to work.

we have a router on our network so we all have internet access.

i suspect the problem is the router not letting any IP's from outside enter onto our home network. is it something to do with ports that i have to enable so internet play is available.?

any help would be great.

Pablo

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17th Feb 04 at 12:07

pengiun

Nismo

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17th Feb 04 at 12:07

you will have to setup port forwarding so your server IP and the port it forwards to to connect to game.

chris_uk

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17th Feb 04 at 12:08

nismo... any idea on how to do that?

Nismo

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17th Feb 04 at 12:11

in your router config , will also need to configure your firewal if you have one to allow tcp/ip trafic through this port.

chris_uk

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17th Feb 04 at 12:12

ok nismo.. you have lost me!

do you have msn?

Nismo

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17th Feb 04 at 12:17

yes i do at home.

what router do you have.

chris_uk

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17th Feb 04 at 12:19

its a D-Link 604/+GUK

Nismo

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17th Feb 04 at 12:28

is it setup usng DHCP

paul_spurrell

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17th Feb 04 at 12:28

find the ip address of your server, and setup port forwarding to your server from your router

chris_uk

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17th Feb 04 at 12:42

niz: no i dont think dhcp is set up,
paul: ill have a look now.

chris_uk

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17th Feb 04 at 12:43

there is something called port redirection. could this be it?

drunkenfool

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17th Feb 04 at 12:45

also find out what ports the game uses so you know what to forward

chris_uk

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17th Feb 04 at 12:45

erm. how the hell would i find out what ports the game uses?

drunkenfool

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17th Feb 04 at 12:48

there might be a help section, or even a search on yahoo might help. There will definately be more than one person who has had the same problem as you.

Tom

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17th Feb 04 at 12:48

Anyone else just read that and think 'blah' all I understood was ISP

Robbo

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17th Feb 04 at 12:49

quote:
Originally posted by Tom
Anyone else just read that and think 'blah' all I understood was ISP

Yip

chris_uk

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17th Feb 04 at 12:49

tom: get up 2 date m8.

Nismo

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17th Feb 04 at 12:51

quote:
Originally posted by chris_uk
there is something called port redirection. could this be it?

yes this will probally be it , so you setup your router to forwar trafic on port say 5000 to forward to your server machine maybe 192.168.0.5 (example)

your mate then goes to your router ip so 111.111.111.11:5000

comprenday?

Tom

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17th Feb 04 at 12:54

quote:
Originally posted by chris_uk
tom: get up 2 date m8.

Help me then:

COD - wtf?
DS - Direct server, but what is the diff between direct & normal?
Router - wtf

IP's (like isp yeah?)
Port - again wtf

chris_uk

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17th Feb 04 at 12:58

Tom:

COD = Call Of Duty (a game)
DS = dedicated Server - faster than a normal one because no1 is playing on that machine
Router = shares internet connection
IP = Internet protocal
Port = no idea.

chris_uk

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17th Feb 04 at 12:59

nismo i sort of understood that but not 100% can you explain in more detail? sorry for being a pain.

chris_uk

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17th Feb 04 at 13:01

nismo, does this help?

drunkenfool

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17th Feb 04 at 13:06

COD = Call of duty
IPs (short for internet protocal address) all computers have one of these, which are assigned to them by special servers. Even corsasport has one

DNS servers change what we trpe in (i.e. www.corsasport.co.uk, which is easy to remember) into the IP address of the computer hosting it, looks up the page and then sends it. The only reason we dont see IP addresses much, is cos imagine how much harder it would be if you had to remember something like 213.120.62.99 instead of www.corsasport.co.uk (PS not their actual IP, thats a BT DNS server!)
Ports are like back doors into a computer, and programs use them so it knows which protocols (for example) to use. The major ones like FTP, HTTP etc are all permanently assigned, but the others are free for less well known programs. IF you type a colon then a port number after a URL or IP address, internet explorer will try to connect to that specific computer but on a different port.
A router is a dedicated machine that has 2 IP addresses. One is accessable to the internet, and the other is accessable to all the computers on the LAN connected to it. It enables a signle interent connection to be shared between more than one computer. So say if you were downloading a file from corsasport, the information would go from the machine hosting it, through the internet (many routers), to your router at home which has the public IP address responsible for the request. The router then sends this information on to the specific computer that asked for it.
Hope i havent confused you!

chris_uk

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17th Feb 04 at 13:09

that help,

so when i host a game it gives me

192.168.X.X:26000

so does that mean the 26000 is the port number?

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