How to host shogun MP Games.

[Drisos]

I have done about the same.

Entered 10.0.0.138 as my router IP-adress, and forwarded ports 8793 and 18321 both tcp and udp.

R'as checked for me but he couldn't see the game.

Shambles, what can it be?



darn router!

[Drisos]

I the those ports. It should work now shouldn't it?

I only can't figure out how to let shogun only use them.

Hope it works.

P.S.: This thread should be stickyfied.

EDIT: thanks for the link in your post. That's my router. I now managed to open ports.

[R'as al Ghul]

Are you really sure about the port numbers, Shambles?
Where are they from?

I know for a fact that I've my router configured properly
and from the screenshot that drisos provided I can tell
that he's done the right thing too (that is if the IP-address
is correct).

You should also correct your post because you're
mixing up IP and port several times.
No offense but this topic really gets on my nerves.

GAH!

[R'as al Ghul]

drisos,

we made a mistake in your settings.
It just occured to me. You're reaching your
router interface under 10.0.0.138. This also means that
your local machine has a different IP. This
other IP is the one that you need to enter for the
port-forwarding.
Because the router is already visible on the web.
What we want to "see" is your local machine.

But, I've got it correct and it still isn't working.

[R'as al Ghul]

Desperate attempt to host #X:

Ok, here's what I did to ckeck my router's portforwarding.
There's this low budget game "Soldat". Google it, it's the first result.
The free 12MB download comes with a dedicated server exe and the game exe.
So I set up a dedicated server, forwarded the required udp port, called my brother
and told him to login. Worked immediatly.
This test proves that my portforwarding settings are ok.

Next thing I tried was running the Fakeserver for Shogun.
I set it up, fired up the game (after editing my own internet-IP into
Internet.cfg) and connected to my own fakeserver.
My Firewall then prompted me that the Fakeserver was
being contacted my a "remote machine" (that was me), I accepted
the incoming connection and was thereby connected to myself via
Internet. This proves that the portforwarding of 8793 works properly.

As far as I can see, my settings are correct. I suspect that Shogun uses
more than two ports. Medieval uses at least six.

Shambles has opened a whole range of 10.000 ports (or was it 1.000?).
This is something I can't do on my router. There's no possibility
to enter a port range. Every port has to be edited manually.
So, I'd really appreciate if someone could determine, perhaps checking his
firewall's log files, the correct ports.

And yes, I'll keep talking to myself here until I get answers.

[Drisos]

This also means that
your local machine has a different IP.

OK. But how do I find out what IP adress my local machine has?

[R'as al Ghul]

You have to run the program "Ipconfig".
Open the command line tool.
This has to be somewhere in your start menu.
If you don't find it, open the "Run"-menupoint
and type cmd into it. Hit return. A window with black
background should open, offering a commandline.
Enter "ipconfig" without "".
The first line in return shows your IP.
This IP needs to be entered instead of the one
already showing in the router interface screeny.

However there's one issue with this,
atm I've no idea if your machine keeps this
number or is assigned a different one by the router
every time (once per day). So this might work only
one time for you.
But I promise you drisos, as soon as I find it out,
I'll do everything to get your machine to do what
mine does.

[Drisos]

But I promise you drisos, as soon as I find it out,
I'll do everything to get your machine to do what
mine does.

Thanks for all the help R'as! I really appriciate you taking the effort to help this tech-noob out. I hope we both solve the hosting problems.



I'll try now.