Able to connect? Disorder and Mayhem
 

Any one able to connect to my server? (Disorder and Mayhem) My brother tried, he gets kicked when trying to get to the character connect screen.

My server is public and listed on the login server. I imagine if my server shows on the login server, my ports are forwarded correctly. I've been wrong before, though!

Thanks, folks.

BTW, I know its a cheesy server name. I had to pick something to get it started :)

I see your server on the list but get kicked back to login after selecting it.

A Wireshark capture shows me this:
Assuming 71.x.x.137 is your external IP address.

Apparently 'Communication administratively filtered' means a router along the path (maybe yours) is blocking the communication.

Anyway, packets from me to your server on port UDP/9000 are being blocked by your router or your ISP.

Also, to appear on the login server, port forwarding is probably not necessary, since the connection from your server to the public loginserver is outbound from you to the loginserver. Port forwarding applies to inbound connections from the Internet to your server, so it is probably your port forwarding that is the problem.

i.e. Your port forwarding could be completely borked but your server would still appear on the public loginserver, but when a player tries to connect to your server, that is when the port forwarding on your router comes into play.

Derision,

Once again, above and beyond. Thanks for taking the time to look into this. I'm using airport extreme by apple. I guess I don't have it configured quite right.

Ok so this is what one section of the port forwarding looks like

http://i.imgur.com/vyZLKYl.png

I used a program to give myself a static IP address. This look ok to you guys?

EQEmu uses UDP for player connections.

You need to forward port UDP 9000 and UDP ports 7000 - 7100 (assuming you don't have more than 101 zone servers) to your internal IP address.

I've never used an airport router, but can you specify multiple ranges in the UDP box, e.g. 7000-7100,9000 ?

what about 5998 and 5999? those UDP too?

I logged in and saw your OOC, but I coudln't reply due to the default rules about /chat and tells, but glad to see you got it working :)

Oh for any one wondering, this was resolved :) Thanks for the help.

I left 5998 and 5999 on TCP