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General Fear wrote:
> On Aug 13, 9:23 pm, Luc The Perverse
> <ataylor_no_spa_am@_letterC_solutions.n3t> wrote:
>> MuuMiMan wrote:
>>> IN TEH PALECE KNOWEN AS alt.games.starcraft, TEH FAGGORTER General
>>> Fear <rich...@earthlink.net> DUMPED HIS GHEYE SHIET ON MY COMPUTAR
>>> SCREEN!!!!:
>>>> I have a Firewall. I also have cable modem. For whatever reason, I
>>>> can't host a game on Battlenet.
>>>> My friends will be on the phone and say "I can't see you."
>>>> Anyone here encountered this problem?
>>> If he's looking for the game in the game list... Don't. Just type the
>>> name/password into the respective boxes and hit OK.
>>> And yeah, like Chris said, if you're doing NAT you need to make sure
>>> to forward ports 6112-6118 (? or something. Might have been WC3) in
>>> both directions, TCP and UDP, I think.
>> For all blizzard games it is 6112 default.
>>
>> Where you are getting confused is that War III has a customizable game
>> port - so you would forward one of each 6112, 6113 . . .  to each
>> computer on your lan.
>>
>> SC will receive and transmit on any of the ports 6112 - 6118 but it
>> first has to receive a UDP packet on that port to start it.  It is
>> possible to set this up using a linux box for routing or certain
>> advanced box routers.
>>
>> I imagine it is theoretically possible to setup the mapping from a
>> firewall like program on the client computer - but AFAIK, no such
>> application has been made.
>>
>> --
>> LTP
>>
>> :)
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I had the windows Firewall on. As a test I turned it off. I also have
> PC illin software. I turned that Firewall off. I was then able to
> host.
> 
> Understand that I am not that good with PCs. How then do I forward
> incoming UDP packets?
> 
If you can host a game (not join - but actually host) then you are fine 
already.

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LTP

:)