Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 22:54:27 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> To: Mark Thomas <thomas@pbegames.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PPP, NAT, and battlenet Message-ID: <20011024225426.A80107@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011024221147.020960d0@pbegames.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011024221147.020960d0@pbegames.com>
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On 10/24/01 10:15 PM, Mark Thomas sat at the `puter and typed: > I'm running a small network behind a FreeBSD box running ppp -nat to a DSL > modem. All my networking services seem to be working fine, except battlenet > (*). > > Case in point, I can join remotely hosted games of Diablo II from my > private side Windows box, but no one can join a game I host, which kind of > makes sense, since they would have to be able to open a connection to my > hidden machine. > > I tried using ipfw to forward the appropriate port (6112 udp/tcp) directly > to my Windows box, but no dice. > > Has anyone gotten this working? If so, care to share? I'd hate to have to > switch my network over to host battlenet games. :) > > [Please cc me via email to any response. TIA] > > (*) battlenet is Blizzard Software's free game network. I'm sorry that I can't solve your problem for you, but I haven't tried to join a Battle.net game in some time (back when I was still cutting my teeth on Linux). I never could get connected because it just couldn't do the masquerading properly. I haven't tried yet, since moving on up to FreeBSD 4.4 with ipfw and natd (just basic translation), mostly because I just didn't know what ports I had to translate back to the Winbox. I'm very interested in the configuration that allows you to connect to and play external games without any such problems; care to share the details? TIA & HAND Lou -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ travel, n.: Something that makes you feel like you're getting somewhere. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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