Topic: Quake 3 Arena server on SME 5.6 server-Gateway mode

[Dennis Johansen]

Hi there,

I’ve been working on a Quake 3 Arena gameserver on my SME 5.6 server-gateway box with little success.

The server runs great on the internal network, but its not accessible from the internet?

It’s the same story with UT2003 server.

Anyone please help.



/ Dennis Johansen
 - Stay Frosty

[Bob]

have you opened up the necessary ports on the SME server external interface? If not I suggest you search the Quake boards for the necessary port numbers and then search in here for port opening info like

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=20082.msg78976#msg78976

[Sascha Yoko]

Why not just get the external users to connect to your server using a VPN client (PPTP must be opened and allow more than one user as configured in the server manager). Once you have this up and running, all ports are free, thereby bypassing the firewall rules.

[Guck]

Well... that may have issues:

5.6 bug #1
"PPTP Connections are unreliable"
http://www.e-smith.org/bugs/index.php3?op=showBug&bugID=93

[Dennis Johansen]

Another issue is that it’s not an acceptable solution as I will have to make e-smith account to each “gamer-dude”

Would it be easier to set the “gameserver” up on SME 5.5?

Because I really needs to get this “gameserver” up and running.

/ Dennis

[Bill Talcott]

Dennis Johansen wrote:
>
> Another issue is that it’s not an acceptable solution as I
> will have to make e-smith account to each “gamer-dude”
>
> Would it be easier to set the “gameserver” up on SME 5.5?
>
> Because I really needs to get this “gameserver” up and running.
>
> / Dennis

You replied to the Wish List thread that it wasn't working, but didn't say much about it. It should be exactly the same between 5.5 and 5.6 with the Port Opening panel installed, FYI.

Have you done a port scan to make sure the port is actually open?

[Dennis Johansen]

> Have you done a port scan to make sure the port is actually
> open?

As you gays probably figured out, I’m not that strong in Linux.

But I installed Darrel May’s portforwarding contrib. and forwarded UDP 27960 to the internal NIC, and yooohoo, it works.

I’m not sure this is the right way to do it, but it does the job.

/ Dennis Johansen