10-18-2006, 04:25 PM
Hi,
Other than that, I wish I could help you since I have much the same problem. I spent some time trying to work it a short while ago (about a month or so). It is pretty easy to set up one machine with either port forwarding or DMZ to play D1 on b.net. But I was not able to get two to do it. It seems that you need to forward the whole range (6112-6119) of UDP and TCP ports to/from each machine. But that causes conflicts. On my network, whichever machine grabs the connection first gets all the data and the other machine just times out. There's a lot of good info here.
The only way I think it will work is to get a second IP address from your ISP. Not all ISPs will do this, and AFAIK, they'll all charge if they do. So, the question is do you want to pay extra to play a ten year old game online. Our decision was (for now) not to.
--Pete
Quote:ipx. I couldnt try the port forwarding for better b.net latency because I have a dynamic external IP. I'll just have to deal with that. I'm more happy being able to LAN though.Dynamic external IP doesn't matter to port forwarding or setting up a machine in the DMZ. You do need to set static IPs for the machines whose ports you are forwarding instead of having the router issue them IP addresses.
Other than that, I wish I could help you since I have much the same problem. I spent some time trying to work it a short while ago (about a month or so). It is pretty easy to set up one machine with either port forwarding or DMZ to play D1 on b.net. But I was not able to get two to do it. It seems that you need to forward the whole range (6112-6119) of UDP and TCP ports to/from each machine. But that causes conflicts. On my network, whichever machine grabs the connection first gets all the data and the other machine just times out. There's a lot of good info here.
The only way I think it will work is to get a second IP address from your ISP. Not all ISPs will do this, and AFAIK, they'll all charge if they do. So, the question is do you want to pay extra to play a ten year old game online. Our decision was (for now) not to.
--Pete
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