Author Topic: of proxys and firewalls (Read 316 times)

bigsky · « **on:** August 11, 2003, 12:48:52 AM »

i have a problem. not with aces high. i got dsl @ two months ago, before i was playing on dialup modem. BUT now i seem to have two ip addresses, an internal and an external. im not running a firewall on win XP home. so to the problem, i enjoy other online games that i cant seem to host and/or create a server for others, according to gamespy, do to this proxy/firewall two ip address thing. can anyone help me to figure out how to fix this or go around this ? this may not be the right place to post this but the other choice was in with the politics, religion, humor, babyburning type posts. so can you guys help me please? thanks.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #1 on:** August 11, 2003, 07:13:31 AM »

How do you know you have 2 IP addresses?

Do you have a router installed? If so, then it probably has a firewall built in. Ports 2000-5000 need to be opened as Aces High will use a random subset of those ports.

bigsky · « **Reply #2 on:** August 11, 2003, 08:00:27 PM »

i logged on to gamespy and gamespy popped up with two ip addresses it said i had an internal and an external and gave me the numbers to both. im not using a router, that i know of. since im not sure what that is, i assume its a device for more than one computer to use a connection. my computer is plugged into a dsl 1000 modem through a 10/100 network card, in a pci slot.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #3 on:** August 12, 2003, 07:18:14 AM »

Sounds like a MSN connection. The DSl1000 is a router with firewall and automatically assumes NAT. From what I have been able to gather, it seems to be a secret on how to configure this thing.