Re: [leaf-user] Playing games through Dachstein

George Metz Fri, 19 Mar 2004 06:45:38 -0800

If this is a roleplaying game like Everquest, Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot, Horizons, etc. then most likely no configuration will need to be done. Most of the massively-multiplayer RPGs out there work on a single outbound UDP connection, with multiple inbound UDP connections in response. Dachstein and Bering (and even the original, outdated LRP) all operate using "loose UDP", meaning that if an outbound UDP connection passes through the firewall, and a half-dozen inbound UDP connections come back from the same server on nearby ports, it passes them on to the originating client.

If the game is Asheron's Call, by any chance, I can confirm that Bering, at least, will work out of the box, and I'm reasonably sure that Dachstein will as well.

Everquest might be cranky about it - the official website mentions setting ZoneAlarm's security setting to Low, which is abysmal practice. Dark Age of Camelot is all TCP outbound connections, so there should be no issues. Same for Ultima Online. Horizons should work fine out of the box. Star Wars Galaxies initiates all the traffic outbound, and none inbound, so should be fine. At least Star Wars and Horizons, and probably Everquest, want ICMP turned on, though I would try it first without it if you have it turned off already.

If it's NOT a Massively Multiplayer RPG, then yes, we definitely need to know the game involved at a minimum. Most of the information above - except for Asheron's Call - comes from searching on Google for "[Game Name] Ports Firewall" without the quotes.

Arnold Wiegert wrote:

Hi,

two of my sons, one at home with his machine behind a Dachstein firewall, the other on the other side of the firewall, somewhere on the net, want to play a role playing game over the internet.

I've run the firewall for some time, but am still a newbie in many respects.

I'm looking for a way to let them play, while keeping up the firewall, but am not at all sure how to do it.

Any suggestions would be most welcome and if I need to provide more specifics, please let me know. At this point I'm not sure what might or might not be relevant :-(

Arnold
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