I used to have a home LAN with two pc's linked via hub (via their own
NIC's) and also one of these same pc's was also connected directly to my
cable modem (via another NIC) so this pc had two NIC's, and I was able to
play on-line games (mostly racing games) and also host games, but only on
this *one* pc, not both.
I have now got rid of the hub and installed a router and both pc's are
directly connected to it and both have internet access. My LAN is working
fine, and everything else is working fine.
But, I now do *no*t seem able to host games, however, I do seem able to
join other peoples games and race? I'm not quite sure why this is
happening or how I can overcome it?
I think this is cos the games servers, and other players who are trying to
join my games, cannot *see* my pc?
Please be gentle with me, as I may be talking complete bolox here, but...
My (limited) understanding of routers, hubs, LAN's. the net, etc is as
follows:
My ISP (NTL) will only allow the cable modem to connect to one recognised
bit of hardware, (NIC, etc) and uses the MAC address of that hardware to
identify it, or if its been changed.
In my previous scenario (eg: hub and direct connection to cable modem) my
ISP (NTL) gave the pc which was connected to the net (via the cabel modem)
an IP address, and (even though I had a software firewall installed)
others on the net could see this pc. In this case my cable modem
recognised the MAC address of the NIC in the main pc.
However, now my ISP still gives me an IP address, but my router also has
an IP address, and gives both my pc's yet further IP address's (which I
find very confusing!!!) My ISP now seems to connect to the MAC address of
the router (which seems to have two, a LAN and a WAN MAC?) which also
confuses me?
I think others on the net can now see my router, (or possibly the IP
address assigned by my ISP) but not my actual pc's.
And I have no idea what happens to the IP address that my ISP has assigned
me? (BTW, I understand its a dynamic IP address, although it seems to stay
the same for some time).
Is there some simple thing that I'm not doing to allow my pc's to be used
as games servers/host's? or is this simply not possible when using a
router?
If it helps, I'm using win98se, and Mcafee Firewall (v4.0) and Mcafee Anti
Virus Proffessional (v7.0) on both pc's. The router is a Belkin cable/DSL
gateway connected to my NTL Pace set top box which houses the built in
cable modem.
The routers NAT function is enabled, however, to simplfy matters I have
disabled the routers own firewall (in favour of my own software firewalls
on each pc).
Many thanx for any info you can give...
*Peter* - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/petergagg/
> I have now got rid of the hub and installed a router and both pc's are
> directly connected to it and both have internet access. My LAN isworking
> fine, and everything else is working fine.
>
> But, I now do *no*t seem able to host games, however, I do seem ableto
> join other peoples games and race? I'm not quite sure why this is
> happening or how I can overcome it?
Quoted from Phil Lee's previous post:
"What you need to do is set up port forwarding on your router. On my
Netgear
RP114 router I went to the router admin page, went to the Advanced tab
then
to Ports. Under Ports I have forwarded the range 6968 to 6972 and 32765
to
32810 to my race server PC. I found it best to assign static IP
addresses to
my PC's and to switch off the DHCP server in my router. I also had to
make
sure that my firewall software on each PC was set up properly. Once I
had
done this I was able to host on one PC and race on another."
Hope this helps
Tony
Yup, Tony's right.. it's all about port-mapping. You gotta find out what
ports certain applications and games use, then map them to your machine.
Mike
http://mikebeauchamp.com
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