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Net play with firewalls

3 posts by 3 people · 14 Feb 2000 - 15 Feb 2000

Joe 14 Feb 2000#519529
Anyone had any luck playing on the 'Net while coming through a firewall? I assume you can add the port number to your IP info when trying to connect to someone hosting a game...If thats true the flexibility of the firewall would be a key issue I would think. Thanks
Rikanthrax 14 Feb 2000#519530
My racing buddy has a "firewall" on his home network. We've had no problems hooking up. Rik Anthrax - - "trust the government?? what are you, some kind of moron?"
With a true firewall, you'll need to configure it so it will let the right packets trough while keeping out the unwanted packets. You do not state which firewall you're using (or planning to use), and what games you want to play, so I cannot give you any tips on configuration. As a cable user, I have one dedicated PC that's permanently connected to the net. I use WinRoute as on that machine (WinRoute has some firewall-like functionality but really cannot be considered to be a firewall). It was easy configuring WinRoute to enable playing GPL and hosting races on my *** machine.
Quoted text (7 lines)>Anyone had any luck playing on the 'Net while coming >through a firewall? I assume you can add the port number >to your IP info when trying to connect to someone hosting >a game...If thats true the flexibility of the firewall would be >a key issue I would think. >Thanks

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