Your assistance is required please

[Skizoke]

I tried that, still no luck.

I just noticed that all computers on my network have the same external IP. I'm guessing that is why it is important for the router to know where to send the request for EQEmu?

I guess that is where I am having trouble. I don't know exactly what I'm not doing.

Thanks for all the help.

[Sylaei]

All of the computers on your network go out into the world through the same router/modem. Thats why they all have the same external Ip address. And they should, the router is smart enough to know who to send what traffic back to when the connection starts inside. You want the connection to start outside and come in. Thats what the firewall/port forwarding does. You might open a dos window and type: ipconfig. Do this on the server pc. This will tell you its Ip. Next on your router use that Ip instead of a pc name. It shouldn't matter but it could.

[Skizoke]

I apoligise for wasting anyones time. I am going to get a regular dsl modem so I don't have to go through this 2 wire dsl modem/wireless router/firewall/etc.

I'm going to try going directly from the modem to the pc and see if I still have these problems. Right now with the firewall turned off and dmz on for the server I still cannot even ping the server. AT&T wasn't much help telling me how to make it work with their 2-wire modem/router/etc.

I'll try again later, thanks agian.

[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.

[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.