TCP Port Numbers

[dosequis]

What TCP port numbers does AH use?
I want to adjust my firewall for it.

xx

[eagl]

Welcome Dan!

I'll fire up AH and then take a look at my local portscanner  



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[eagl]

Stupid BBS won't show my other post so I have to make a new one instead of editing my old one.  It's a refresh problem caused by UBB btw...

Here's what xnetstat shows:

local port    remote addy         remote port
2657   beta.hitechcreations.com     80
(6 connections to port 80 shown)
2663   beta.hitechcreations.com     3002
(2 open to port 3002 shown)
2665   beta.hitechcreations.com     2001
(only 1 open to port 2001)

Since I also have my web browser open to HTC's bbs, I don't know if some of those are to the web site...

Hope this helps.
 




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[eagl]

Sorry about the third post.

My firewall might be porking something, 'cause I'm getting a new message I didn't use to get.  "Not receving updates, switching to TCP".  I dunno if this is a good or bad thing, or if it's affecting what ports the game is using.  Now I need to know what it's using...  I'll keep poking it to see what ports it's trying to use.

XX, your uswest email addy is bouncing back with "disk quota full".


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[Ozymandias_KoK]

Port 80 is for yer web browsing stuff.  That "not receiving updates, switching to TCP" bit sounds like it's having some kind of problem maybe with UDP packets?  XX is in a better position to be familiar with that stuff tho. He showed Oz his "cube" at work one day, very high tech -- and a little spooky too.  

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[Dancer]

FWIW,

I'm getting the "switching to TCP" message,
too.

Prolly due to the fact that I'm on a private
IP address room, using sygate for NAT.

Anyway, RW works, Brand W works and AH works  
What do I need more      

Dancer out.

[dosequis]

Hi guys. I dunno what eagl's firewall is
doing, perhaps using it's own protocol for
control, much like my firewall does.
Eagl, do you use a software client to
"control" you firewall from your PC?

It certainly would not change the packets from UDP to TCP as they passed through it, I can tell you that.

Oz, good to see you. I haven't been blowing you guys off, I just don't work in the spooky place anymore. I went to work for Cisco Systems, so I'm down in the Tech Center now.

I gave up on Brand W, but am looking at AH.

xx

p.s. eagl, thanks for the port assignments, I'll poke bidirectionally on the two and see what happens. Otehrwise, I'll break the sniffer out and check. I just thought I'd get the "official" answer, but none seems to be forthcoming.

[Dancer]

 

It certainly would not change the packets from UDP to TCP as they passed through it, I can tell you that.

I think the switch from UDP to TCP is in the FE.
UDP seems to be the default mode and if the
FE doesn't get up-dates for a certain amount
of time it switches to TCP.

I'm not network guru but it seems that at
least with the routing/NAT software I use
(sygate), TCP NAT is perfectely implemented
whereas UDP NAT is not so easy to achive.

Strangely enough, sygate allowes NAT and
routing on ICMP packages.

Dancer out.

[eagl]

XX,

My "firewall" is actually a combo of my local tcp-ip getting filtered through win98SE ICS NAT, and that BlackIce protector software.  Put the two together and it's fairly annoying actually.  With ICS enabled and the BlackIce protector enabled, I was getting bandwidth stoppages and desktop/game freezes with framerates as low as 0.5.

I turned all that off, and didn't get the switching to TCP error message, but the 2001 port was still the only one open to the game server.  Either XNetStat doesn't know how to read UDP ports correctly or 3002/2001 are the only ports being used by the AH FE.



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[Ozymandias_KoK]

Hehe, oz works in DTC too now.  (5 mins away from home, teehee!)  Oz at Belleview and I-25 more or less (right off of Ulster/whatever it is south of Belleview -- who the hell named those streets? ).

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