Main Arena calling me??

[MrDick]

I am seeing connections from the HiTech main arena back to firewall on ports 2000 and 2001.

Shortly after this the game loses host connection.

The beacon never comes on and the net status is clean.

Why would the arena be trying to make a connection to my IP?

Time   Chain   Iface   Proto   Source   Src Port   Destination   Dst Port
               
22:06:35  INPUT eth2   UDP   206.16.60.39 2000 24.54.213.64 2000
22:06:35  INPUT eth2 UDP 206.16.60.39    2000 24.54.213.64 2000
22:06:32  INPUT eth2 UDP 206.16.60.39    2000 24.54.213.64 2000
22:06:32  INPUT eth2 UDP 206.16.60.39    2000 24.54.213.64 2000

Thoughts?

-MrD

[fuzeman]

From a sticky above "The current port range for all arenas in Aces High is 2000-5000, inclusive, for UDP and TCP. Aces High will use a subset of those ports for all online play."
Just my two cents.
One cent for 2000 and one cent for 2001.

[GunnerCAF]

You PC and the Host trade data.  It uses UDP ports 2000 to 5000.  If connection is lost, either incoming or outgoing, both your PC and host will not know this at the same time and will keep trying.  Looks like the host was still looking for you.  This is what I would expect to see.

I have no idea why you would not get a beacon, or net status is not showing this.

Gunner

[Skuzzy]

Incoming VOX.

[MrDick]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
Incoming VOX.

It would seem then that incoming ports should be opened and forwarded to the PC.

VOX works.  So what am I missing?  Do I really need to open up those inbound ports?

-MrD

[MrDick]

Originally posted by fuzeman
From a sticky above "The current port range for all arenas in Aces High is 2000-5000, inclusive, for UDP and TCP. Aces High will use a subset of those ports for all online play."
Just my two cents.
One cent for 2000 and one cent for 2001.

Yes, but I am assuming this is outbound connections... my pc to hitech.  not the other way around.

-MrD