Hosting Multiplayer Games behind a router.. HOW???

[Krueger81]

Hello,

I got this Dual P III Server box sitting here that I would like to utilize for serving games. My ISP really doesn't allo wit but I am going to try it out anyway just so see how it works.

I am using a DLink 604 Router soon to be switched out with a wireless Dlink 614+ router. Now the games I wanna host are the following:

Battlefield 1942
UT 2003
RTCW
Quake 3
UT
and maybe the occasional Strategy game.

Now I have no cluw how to do this. Are there any tutorials out that would explain me how to do it.

[llbbl]

It would be much easier for us if you choose one game that you want to host. Ok you have two options. Contact the company or other people that have done this thing before and figure out what ports you need to open if you want to host a game. The fan sites for that particular game would be your best resource if the company is slow to respond. The 2nd option is to place the machine in the demilitarized zone outside your router. This is specfic to certain routers and basically disables the firewall properties for that particular machine.

In either case you need to find the software that is needed to run the server. This will be different for each game. It may be on the company site, it may be on a Fan site. You will have to do some searching.

It is probably suggested that you install Linux to host the games if it is supported because this will make gameplay smoother. Unless you are a major windows tweaker you will not be able to get the same performance out of a M$ system. Too many crappy processes running in the background and your internet is not optimized for hosting (downloading always seems to go faster on Linux systems). You can administer the server remotely from your 2nd machine using a different piece of software.(for most games)

If anyone has UT 2003 for Linux, give me a buzz.

[llbbl]

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[Archon]

I've lost him, Jim!

Or, you could just move your IP into the router's DMZ. You'll lose any firewall defense, but you can still play games.

[llbbl]

* An area of an organization's network which is open to the public over the Internet and is separated from the organization's private network by a firewall. The resources in the demilitarized zone are typically Web servers and are often outsourced by the organization to an Internet Service Provider which locates the DMZ at the ISP's point of presence (POP). (See network, Internet, firewall, resource, Web server, Internet Service Provider and point of presence in the hard copy dictionary.)


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