Multiple Servers on the Same Network Allowing Players to Connect

[trevius]

I have been working on getting a Linux server running to move my server to and I think the server is all ready to go. I currently have both servers up and running, but of course they can't both use the same ports to be forwarded in the router. So, I set the zone ports to 7501-7600 (Main server using 7000-7500) and the TCP/IP port to 9001 (normally 9000) and the HTTP port to 9081 (normally 9080).

I am able to connect fine to this server from my windows PC on the same network, but I believe it goes directly over the lan, so port forwarding doesn't get used. No one else can connect to my server and I know it isn't the setting on HTTP, cause that has nothing to do with playing on the server. I also know it isn't the zone ports, because those can be anything you want. So, I am thinking that it might be the TCP/IP port being set to 9001 instead of 9000. Does anyone know if it is required to have it set to 9000 or does it not matter?

I have all of the ports forwarded in my router to the correct PC and have them configured properly in my eqemu config files.

          <!-- Sets the ip/port for the tcp connections.  Both zones and console (if enabled).  Defaults are shown -->
	    <tcp ip="localhost" port="9001" telnet="disable"/>
	   
    	    <!-- Enable and set the port for the HTTP service. -->
	    <http port="9081" enabled="true" mimefile="mime.types" />

If that isn't the case, then I must have some other kind of port blocking on my Linux box. I am still very n00b to Linux, so I don't doubt that could be the case. I set it up using the Wiki that Aramid wrote for Debian Linux Etch install. It works great otherwise. If someone can verify if the port 9001 thing or if ports are blocked on my box, I would appreciate it. I am going to try testing tonight, but I have a feeling it might not work if I replace it with my current server.

After I am all done with this, I plan to do 1 more complete Debian Linux install and I will try to write up a step by step list of additions for the Wiki that Aramid wrote. I ran into a few more things that needed to be resolve. For one, if you use more than 1GB of ram on your server, it won't recognize it from a fresh CD install, you have to install a kernel that will recognize up to 4GBs.

Thanks in advance for any input on this.