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[hayward6]

Originally Posted by Skizoke

I got a new dsl modem that has no built in firewall and I still cannot ping any computer on this network from outside the network. All 3 machines are running vista.

After more research it appears there is a problem with vista and ping. I'm still trying to figure out how to enable it.

You still need to port foward in the router to the proper system. The router may not have a "Firewall" but it still kinda does Any system trying to reach a pc on your network will need the outside IP address, the one your provider provides. You then have to tell your router what machine on your network requests from the outside will be directed to. So for an example... any request for port 9000 will be told to router to 192.168.1.50 or whatever

[Skizoke]

I tried that too. I keep reading about a problem with vista and ping. It is the only thing that makes sense to me, I have literally tried everything and still cannot ping the server.

It's Vista 64 os with 8 gigs ram.

[Sylaei]

In order to ping the router from outside, you'll need to make sure port 7 (echo) is not blocked. Even then it will only allow you to ping the router, not the device inside.

If I remember right my error log was saying that the authenication was failling. Try forwarding all ports to the eqemu server pc. That should work. From there we can try to close the ones that aren't needed. Kind of seems like overkill but you have had this issue a while.


Are you running the windows firewall? Try turning it off first.

[Skizoke]

Windows firewall is off.
I turned the firewall on the dsl modem off.
I do not see any way to forward ports on the dsl modem, but I do see something called "IP Passthrough" which is essentially DMZ.
I'm going straight from the dsl modem to the server.

Not using my router at the moment. If I ever get it connected without the router I'll try to get it working with it.

[Skizoke]

If anyone feels like it please try to join Skizoke Test Server and post a log of why you couldn't connect.

If by some miracle you do connect then don't worry about playing there yet, server is a bit cheezy. I increased exp a tad too much. I'll spend more time adjusting things like that once I get the network side of the server set up correctly.

[Skizoke]

It looks like someone was able to log in according to world.exe but they did not post here. Can one of you please try it? I promise I will not bother you so often once this is set up

[Skizoke]

My friend was able to join tonight. Finally got stuff set up correctly.

Thank you to everyone who spent time trying to help me, I'm sure I would have never figured it out without you.