Firewall Ports
 

I tried a search but found TOO much actually for it to be useful so here goes. I'f i'm understanding the various configuration files correctly I need to redirect all traffic on ports 7995-7999 and port 5999 to my internal server address from my router. Just a quick yea or nay would suffice and I'd appreciate it. I'm 99% sure I'm correct but I've made some big mistakes being 99% sure about things.

and 9000 too i think.

i had the following

5900-5999 TCP/UDP
7900-7999 TCP/UDP
9000 TCP/UDP

and i never got it working.

The official eq faq indicates that tcp and udp packets may be sent/recieved on _any_ port >1024. If all you really wanted was a "yea or nay," then I think this counts as a "nay."

i have everything below 1024 blocked, and anything extra i dont want available, i filted on the firewall and left the rest open.

Well what I'm probably going to have to do is set up a DMZ. I host for some folks and I can't really open up security risks for them (thus my timidity in opening any ports at all) I'm using a cisco 2514 w/ 2 ethernet inputs and the cisco firewall package on a 1500/1500 dsl line, so setting up a DMZ may be more of a challenge than getting my server (Which is tested and working) online. BTW my server building experience is an interesting little tale which I wiill post next, those who aren't interested may want to avoid it.

and here's the story of my server.
I was cleaning my basement (which is where all the computer magic happens around here) and I started to notice various leftovers from clients who'd left things behind and/or things from my PC upgrades. At first I was thinking "man there's some decent stuff here" then I found the AMD 2000+ and the gigabyte of ddr ram. At that point I thought "Holy shit I can build a server out of old parts!"
Here's what I ended up with.
AMD Athlon 2000+
1 gig ram
soyo kt 333 dragon ultra MB (w/ onboard raid)
40 gig mirrored array
I can't wait till I can bring it online.

but this isnt official EQ......just forward the ports
rember if you are running more or less zones this will change some of them, and you will run the server just fine.

His first post didn't specify a server-only config.

If security-sesitive services are run on the same lan as the to-be eqemu box, you'd better be firewalling traffic between the various internal servers, too.