Multi play and firewall

Mon Mar 17, 2003 4:22 pm by Number04

Does anyone have any experience with getting freelancer to work through a firewall?

Before you flame me, hear me out.

I want to run a server from home. I don't have any any firewall protection there. I tried to connect to my server from my friends house and it works. Also, people are coming to it from the 'net. BUT. i want to be able to play it from school. The school has a huge firewall with only 10-20 ports open. I ran the server on an open port, and i can't connect to it. i will try and cycle through the ports, but are there any other ports that i need to be aware of?

Mon Mar 17, 2003 7:01 pm by RevRaz

Your school needs to have the Direct Play ports open, ports 2302-2304.

Mon Mar 17, 2003 7:17 pm by Number04

Is there anyway that i can change that in the program? I can't really ask them to open up ports in the firewall so i can play games

Mon Mar 17, 2003 7:31 pm by RevRaz

Try starting your server by using the flserver.exe /p: xxxx switch, and choose a port that is open on your schools firewall. Dont know if that will work or not, but worth a try.

Edited by - revraz on 17-03-2003 19:47:04

Tue Mar 18, 2003 2:15 pm by Number04

been tyring that. oh well. Looks like i am back to trying whatever i can find.

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