Congrats.

For security:

- Shut off any services you aren't using.
- Encrypt all traffic that you can (https instead of http, ssh instead of telnet, etc.) and restrict logins/hosts for services.
- Keep up with OS patches.
- Monitor logs.

Basically, everything you've already heard. ;)

-orkim

As long as you only forwarded the particular ports and only the UDP layer, you should be relatively fine. If you are at home chances are you just have a router which works to an extent. If you have a datacenter server chances are you have to manually put in iptables (port restrictions).

Keep in mind that EQEmu uses TCP to handle traffic between login<->world<->zone.

The EverQuest Client and EQEmu use UDP against each other so thats the only protocol that should be open to everyone.