MTW Firewall Problems ??

**Puzz3D** · 12-17-2004, 04:57

A router has two ip addresses. The one seen from WAN side, and the one seen from the LAN side. The WAN side is getting an ip address from your Internet Service Provider. Likewise the router will provide ip addresses to the computers on the LAN side. These are usually in the 192.168.0.X range where X is a number between 0 and 255. Your computer sees the router as the default gateway, and that is usually ip address 192.168.0.1. Try that address in your browser and see if you can get into the admin login of the router. The username is often "admin" without a password unless you have set a password. If you get into the admin of the router, you can set one address to be in the DMZ and you'll want to set that to the address of your machine. You can set most routers to always give your machine the same ip address using the MAC address to identify it. The MAC address is a unique hardware identifier for every network device. It's safer to use port forwarding rather than DMZ.

You can go to the website of the router manufacturer and usually find a manual in pdf format if you have lost your manual. You'll also usually find a firmware update there, but don't apply it unless you are having trouble with router features not working. If you apply a firmware update improperly, you will end up with a router that doesn't work at all.

**YAKOBU** · 12-17-2004, 17:40

Thanks Puzz3D.

I un-installed ZoneAlarm but people could still not see my game. I then used 192.168.0.1 and managed to get into my router. There was an option there for DMZ which I enabled after putting in my IPCONFIG address 192.168.0.X. People still cannot see my game. Any further ideas?

P.S. The router has a firewall page set to Basic. Could this be stopping it? There is a High, Medium and Low option also.

**YAKOBU** · 12-17-2004, 22:38

Thank you everybody

I've just managed to play MP on both RTW and MTW:VI. This is with the settings on my last post. It's great to back battling another human

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Thanks again

**Clips** · 12-18-2004, 21:11

Great to hear it Yoko :) at last you got it and as for the problem you had with gettign windows firewall up as you have no bottom taskbar icon you can go to control panel, network connection, then right click on connection your using and go to properties, then click advanced tab at top and lastly tick or untick firewall box but it must be off anyway for it to be working now, btw when your not hostin would be good idea to turn of dmz and add firewalls back on because with the settings ur having it on to host very low security and so it could be hacked easily, another idea now you have got it working is to turn of dmz but enable the ports i told you above into your routing set up screen now i believe you know how to get all this up and it should work fine with protection from the routers firewall which should be awesome :) Hope this gives you few ideas mate and great to hear you got it sorted at last ^^