Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:13:09 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: Ryan Alexander Carris <carris@ecn.purdue.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: PPP Server and Online Gaming Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A6025@site2s1>
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Actually the ports are listed on blizzard's web site, I never tried it myself because my school's firewall blocks the port anyway. Here let me look again... Yep here it is.. 6112 UDP. You may want to take a look at their proxy page, there is no BSD specific information, but what is there could be adapted. http://www.battle.net/support/proxy/ -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Somers [SMTP:brian@Awfulhak.org] > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 1999 5:57 AM > To: Ryan Alexander Carris > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: PPP Server and Online Gaming > > You need to use the `alias port' command to redirect the packets to > the incoming machine. I don't know what the port ranges are, but I'm > sure a search of this mailing list will reveal all. > > The latest version of ppp now supports port range specs too - makes > life easier when configuring games ;-) > > > While home for easter, I'm trying to help a friend set up a > > FreeBSD machine to act as a proxy for his home network. > > So far, I got the PPP working great except that online gaming > > no longer works. When we try to play Diablo, the game searches > > for the fastest server. After about twenty seconds, it returns > > an error message saying that the line quality is either very poor or > > the networt is not processing UDP packets. It then allows online > > chatting and so forth, but not game playing. > > I'm pretty sure that > > the line quality is fine, so it must be the UDP packets thing. > > Does anyone have any thoughts on how to fix this? > > > > thanks > > > > Ryan A. Carris > > carris@purdue.edu > > -- > Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <brian@OpenBSD.org> > <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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