Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 21:19:57 -0600 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Dave Woods" <kudos@telusplanet.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: msn gamezone stuff thru a gateway Message-ID: <01e501c04ac5$1b1be6c0$0200000a@vladsempire.net> References: <MABBLJMHNIAMFGEABJAGMEGECAAA.kudos@telusplanet.net>
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> As far as UDP packets go I can run Unreal Tournament behind a BSD firewall > and the UDP packets get routed fine. I have not tested anything on MSN > though so it might be specific to them. The only thing I can suggest is to > either check your firewall rules to see if they are blocking UDP or else use > another external IP while gamming (not the best answers but that is the best > I can think of right now) > The Firewall isn't blocking the UDP packets...the problem is that NAT doesn't know what to do with them, it can't route them properly. Using an external (ie static IP) would work just fine for him, but if he could do that, he wouldn't be running NAT in the first place. I have been down this road, and the olny workaround that I found was to dismantle the LAN and give the gaming machine the sole connection to the net so that it could have it's own IP address. (not a good solution at all, really.) Josh > > This is an issue I have to solve for my roomate as he is running Windows > 98 and wants to play MechWarrrior 3 online at msn gamezone. > > > > my network topology is as follows... > > > > I am running FreeBSD 4.0 that connects to PacBell DSL via PPPoE and is > > the gateway for the internal LAN in my apartment. > > > > ppp is being run on the FreeBSD machine with the -nat option... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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