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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: bloom25 on March 19, 2002, 12:15:15 AM
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I found out today that AH is now using some additional network ports. (3004 for example) Once I reconfigured my firewall all of the sudden my connection was perfect! I'm guessing that AHvoice may have played a part, as I readded it to the programs list as well.
Try disabling Zone Alarm (when playing AH) and/or reconfiguring your AH and AHvoice entries and see if it helps you as well.
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I can't use ZA and AH at the same time. If I try to connect to AH with the firewall in place, my system freezes up.
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zonealarm locks my machine up as well
i use a linksys router, where is there a listing or how can i find a listing of what ports AH uses?
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Get a better firewall,tiny is good,run firewall,run aces,the firewall will tell you what port aces is trying to travel..."aceshigh.exe is trying to connect to blah blah on remote port XXX" :)
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Sandman, when it freezes up press "r"(remember) then "y"(yes), or was it the other way around, not sure now.
ZA will freeze your comp & have a popup box asking you if you accept AH to use your connection. since you're in AH you won't see the box.
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Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
I can't use ZA and AH at the same time. If I try to connect to AH with the firewall in place, my system freezes up.
If ur system locks simply type "y". This will send confirmation to the ZA message box i.e. AH has access to the internet. Than goto ZA and configure AH to always have access to the internet.
No problems running AH and ZA here.
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Tiny Personal Firewall works well also.
It alt-tabs you to the desktop first time though so you can answer the YesNo question.
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This, I think, is a bit poor.
More and more people are on broadband and using firewalls, and I know in the past I went through hell trying to get port information to configure my router to accept UDP traffic (the source of the infamous "switching to TCP" mesage).
Is there any particular reason why the ports can't be listed on the HTC website? It's rapidly becoming a standard configuration issue.
:mad:
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Is there any particular reason why the ports can't be listed on the HTC website? It's rapidly becoming a standard configuration issueIs there any particular reason why the ports can't be listed on the HTC website? It's rapidly becoming a standard configuration issue
There shouldn't be. If you put on a port monitor it should tell you what program is trying to connect to what ports. The netstat with windows only tells you what porst are open at the time.
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What's a port monitor, sounds like a usefull tool to have?
And..are there any freeware ones?
(seems a bit off one should stoop to hacking tools to access or optimize a game one pays for)
Thanks for the tip, though.
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What Seeker said. FDisk, got any freeware links? I've only found shareware ones, and they're expensive after their trials expire.
port monitors log what ports have been accessed on your machine by what remote IP and what data has been sent (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc), and so forth.
CommView for example monitors when a port has been opened, who opened it, how much data is being sent over it on one page, and also tracks all the data packets on another page. It's useful for figuring out port mappings on firewalls or NAT software. :) Unfortunately it's a 30 day trial and pretty expensive to buy after the trial is over. :(
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I can't thin of any off the top of my head.. I know that good firewalls like checkpoint has them *snicker*
Goto http://www.download.com or http://www.tucows.com and try some out.
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buy.... yes.. that riiiiight... you have to buy software these days....
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"port monitors log what ports have been accessed on your machine by what remote IP and what data has been sent (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc), and so forth.
CommView for example monitors when a port has been opened, who opened it, how much data is being sent over it on one page, and also tracks all the data packets on another page. It's useful for figuring out port mappings on firewalls or NAT software. Unfortunately it's a 30 day trial and pretty expensive to buy after the trial is over. "
Is it OS, firewall or router based software? What I mean is, I understand the explanation (thanks); but don't understand how it works if my fire wall's misconfigured, because Windows based software will never know what AH tried to acess, Zone alarm will stop the request before it gets there. Similarly, if my router's configured to block certain ports, how will Zone Alarm ever even know they were asked for?
I would have thought one needs to first open the router for that port range, then the fire wall, then the port monitor can look at what's happening.
Where have I missed the ball?
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Originally posted by Duedel
If ur system locks simply type "y". This will send confirmation to the ZA message box i.e. AH has access to the internet. Than goto ZA and configure AH to always have access to the internet.
No problems running AH and ZA here.
Thanx Duedel and Saintaw... I'll try that.
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Is it OS, firewall or router based software? What I mean is, I understand the explanation (thanks); but don't understand how it works if my fire wall's misconfigured, because Windows based software will never know what AH tried to acess, Zone alarm will stop the request before it gets there. Similarly, if my router's configured to block certain ports, how will Zone Alarm ever even know they were asked for?
Ok, All software is OS based software :D Unless it's embeded into something (Cisco has it's own OS, port monitor ect.)
ZA dosen't block ports. It controls the useage of the internet by blocking programs. You can preprogramme ZA for software at
STOLEN!
/STOLEN!
http://www.zonelabs.com/services/support_programs.htm#1program (http://www.zonelabs.com/services/support_programs.htm#1program)
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Ya know, this would be much easier if HT just posted a list of all ports required from link on the main page called "Configuring a firewall for Aces High"
(http://www.swoop.com/images/logo_small.jpg)
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you open up all the ports on your router (or send 'em all to your Aces High machine), you turn off your firewall, then run your port monitoring program. Turn on Aces High, fiddle around a bit, shoot some guys, die, use AHVoice... Turn off Aces High, then turn back on your firewall and close ports on your router. Then check your port monitoring software for any ports that were accessed by HTC's servers. It should show all the ports that that Aces High used to transmit data on. Then you'd know the ranges to map on your router (so you get nice UDP connections) and to open on your firewall (if you have one that requires you to do that.)
Personally, I use software routing on the "server" computer. So I gotta know which ports Aces High uses for UDP data, so I can map 'em to my "client" machine. I don't really need to do this anymore, but it was set up this way for my software engineering project team. Tried to set it up so my client was connecting directly, but for some reason Cox.net refuses to talk to any computer but my server. *shrugs*