Preventing 3+Boxing (same ip)

[Semedaien]

I have posted this twice and all I have gotten back was you can do this via router. I understand I can do it through my router but can anyone give me any further information on how, or instructions? I would greatly appreciate this, and I hope this isn't counted as spam (no intentions in doing so).

Thank you.

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[So_1337]

The problem is, it depends if your router has the capability. If it does, you're just going to have to figure it out. Routers are so varied and so different that it's hard to spell out instructions.

[Bishop4351]

Just out of curiosity why do you care if some one three boxes?

I could think of a few ways to do it with perl and iptables but it wouldn't be easy and could just as easily block out a network where people have more than 3 players from one NATed address.

[ChaosSlayer]

[QUOTE=Bishop4351;144930]Just out of curiosity why do you care if some one three boxes?

on servers where raid encounters specialy configured for 1 group - admins do not want people who 5-box or some times 10-box to 24/7 farm them while normal players don't have any chance to make a normal group and atempt the encounter

[Semedaien]

Just out of curiosity why do you care if some one three boxes?

Making a server just like classic, progression, and I want people to group with each other. I dont want 4 man guilds taking down big bosses :P

[Angelox]

It's not as easy as as limiting 1 ip per client - what if there where two people legit playing from a Lan? I know many people that play like that (Example:mother&son, brothers, my daughter and I).
I have also two boxed, and played with a hack called "Xylobot" (ceased working with later patches of EQ). I did this on SOE EQ. I can tell you anyone who 2-3 boxes off a few PC's (or windowed) with NO MQ2 or whatever help, is under great stress! it really doesn't change the game much, and if they want to do that, so be it. What you really need to worry about (and so does anyone else that wants to make some sort of game out of this), is the MQ users and other hacks - anyone who uses this on your server has access to a lot of things they aren't supposed to. If you research some on these forums, you might find some possible solutions.
I think I would run my server from behind a firewall, so I could IP ban anyone I caught cheating. You can do this with Linux, not sure about Windows. How would you catch them? I guess by watching them and luring them into preset traps on your server (do research).
EDIT:
The best you can do with good results (without any hacks such as MQ2) is two box, so you would not have much control guild-wise.