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Originally Posted by Frienzied
Well I have a router, and I have TONS of problems with it. I just directly link my computer to my modem to run a server. I also have never got my server to work when running through a router either. So I would just try to make a server directly linked to your modem for now.
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Read the Server Guide. It will show you how to run a server behind a NAT router. I do it. I run the server on my laptop, and multibox with my desktop, and people outside my local network can access it.
Basically, do this: Go to no-ip.com or someplace that will let you register a free domain name. In your loginserver.ini, set your server address to this domain name (not an IP number).
In your OS hosts file of each computer on your local network that you want to use for EQ, set the domain name to resolve to the internal IP address of the server.
In your boot5zones, use this format for each instance of zone:
<internal IP of zone server> <port> <localhost>
BTW, you can have as many instances of zone.exe as your machine can support. You can start 20 zones at once if you want.
But what I'd like to know is how make the zones stay up all the time (i.e. not "sleep"). I already know how to make them persistent.