Topic: Port forwarding Help with games

[LinuxNooB]

Hello everyone I'm glad I can share the same interested as most of you. I just got 5.6 e-smith and have it running as a server networking 2 computers. If any of you wouldn't mind answering this for me how would I go about port forwarding or open ports to host games and stuff. I'm new to linux and semi new to computers and if I have this concept wrong please correct me. Thanks in advance and happy computing.


LinuxNooB

[Cyrus Bharda]

Well firstly you have to find out what port the game is using and then install Darrell May's Port Forwarding module from:

http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/portforwarding/

Be sure to choose the 5.6 version and then setup the forward in your server-manager, easy as! When I did it I didnt know wether to use UDP or TCP, so i just set it to forward both ports to my internal machine:

Example:

SME ip 123.456.789.001
Internal PC ip 192.168.0.1
Game port req 16000

Setup port forward on SME to forward all TCP 16000 to 192.168.0.1 16000
Setup port forward on SME to forward all UDP 16000 to 192.168.0.1 16000

And bob's your uncle!

I have several ports forwarded for certain games I play plus certain p2p programs that I use and it works great! Thanks go out to Darrell May for the great conrtib!!

Cyrus Bharda

[Charlie Brady]

Cyrus Bharda wrote:

> Well firstly you have to find out what port the game is using
> and then install Darrell May's Port Forwarding module from:
>
> http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/portforwarding/
>
> Be sure to choose the 5.6 version ...

If you have a look at the changelog you'll notice that the module is not Darrell's, although he has been one of the contributors to it.

regards

Charlie

[Cyrus Bharda]

My humblest apologies, I have not looked at the change log, and just assumed that it was his, sorry Charlie!!

Cyrus Bharda

[LinuxNooB]

Thanks cyrus I'll surely give it a shot ).