Topic: Quake III Arena server not showing in master list

[Jeff]

Hello,

I have a q3 server running behind an SME firewall, but for some reason it isn't showing up in the q3 master list. I've forwarded the 27961-4 ports to the address of the server. The server can be played on via the internet, but the IP address of the server has to be specified (ie you can't browse for it with the game). I've done every thing I can think of and have narrowed it down to the SME box or the ISP (winfirst).

TIA
Jeff

[Adam Unger]

I just recently discovered the problem.  The SME server’s port forwarding will not forward UDP packets onto the specified address.  This is a standard setup for this firewall.  I have been looking at an update called looseudp http://www.thelinuxreview.com/howto/IP-MASQ/x1680.htm.  This will supposedly fix the problem.

Good luck and I hope this helps!

[jeff]

Thanks for the info. I'll give it a shot.

-Jeff

[jeff]

Ah... Thanks to Adam for a shove in the right direction.

After doing a little research, I found that the looseUDP patch is already part of the SME kernel, which is good because I don't know if I could re-compile the kernel after patching it...
So all I had to do was "turn on" the loose UDP patch by executing the following command:

echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_masq_udp_dloose

Works perfect. Thanks for the help.

Jeff