Topic: Some help needed with getting on D2.

[Mace]

In my recent move to a new house I now have a wired home with network jacks everywhere.  So, I got my main desktop computer working fine holes in the filrewall still work as they did before and I can play on D2 just fine as well.  Tried to set up another computer in my office to play on D2 while I'm on conference calls and such but I get a firewall detected message.  Any ideas??

Here is the setup.  Working PC is running windows XP through the D-link DI-707P router with ports opened for 47624 and 2300-2400.

Non-working PC is running windows ME through the same router with the same ports opened up.  I used the New D2 updater on both and the ME machine still gets a firewall message while the XP machine works fine.  I even put it out in the DMZ but that didn't help either.

Any ideas???

[airBiscuit]

If you are opening ports, this generally means that you are allowing incoming connections to be forwarded from the firewall/router to a specific IP address.  So the question is, are you assigning different IP addresses to the XP and ME machines?  You would need to to have them on a LAN.  You'll need to see which IP you are forwarding the port traffic to and set it to be the machine you are using.  The other option is to set both of the machines to use the same IP, so that your 'game' machine runs on that specific IP.  Either you set the IP address manually on both machines to be the same, and only run one of the machines on the network at a time, or you set up your DHCP so that your 'game' machine comes up first and is always assigned the first IP in the list, followed by bringing up your other machine.

In order to have port forwarding for both machines simultaneously, you would need to have two different IP addresses as seen from outside the firewall, so that you can set your firewall rules to apply port forwarding in both cases to either machine, depending on which IP the packet is destined for.  A lot of people don't do this because it costs extra to have more than one IP address granted from an ISP, so they set up an internal address table for their LAN.  In this case, you can only forward ports to one of the machines behind the firewall.

I think some games have a scheme where incremental numbers are used, so that 2300 will apply to the first game machine, and 2301 will apply to the second game machine.  This might provide a mechanism to forward to two machines in a LAN, but I think both of the machines have to be actively playing.  I am not experienced with this aspect of port forwarding, so someone else will have to chime in on that.

[Mace]

Well, you're right about the only forwarding to one machine at a time.  I thought I could set it up to forward to any of them but as long as only one was running it would work.  Seems it takes the first one in the list and forwards to that.  The XP machine was first so it was getting the forwards even though the ME machine was running the game.  I deactivated the XP machines forwards and the ME machine started working.

 So it'll work...sort of anyway. 

[Mog]

I used to use a little program called dxport (I thinki). Managed to get 2 pcs on a server at same time with it, but not in same mission together,which kind of defeated the object of playing on a LAN.

[FPF-DieHard]

I used to use a little program called dxport (I thinki). Managed to get 2 pcs on a server at same time with it, but not in same mission together,which kind of defeated the object of playing on a LAN.

That makes sense, both PCs would have the same public IP so there is no way they could draft each other.   Same reason why I can't draft when hosting.

Did you try having a 3rd person draft the 2 of you?   That may have worked.