How to host shogun MP Games.

[R'as al Ghul]

OS=Operating System


This is how the command-tool looks like.
The german word is "Eingabeaufforderung"
Notice the icon with the "C:\" prompt.
Look out for that.

[R'as al Ghul]

I did some more testing and have the feeling that I'm very close.

When hosting a LAN game Shogun listens to UDP 2290.
When hosting a game on fakeserver it listens to TCP 2467.

And then there're also the ports for directplay
6515 (Dplay UDP)
6500 (Query Port)

I'll try to test those ports asap.

[Drisos]

I found the program and entered ipconfig:



But now? what is my IP?

Let's host.

Good luck and hope we solve it, R'as.

[Shambles]

Lots of posts here,

Ive been a lil busy so havent seen any of these earlier,

The port numbers i found in my firewall.
I checked the port numbers that shogun uses when conecting to games and crating hosted games,
also it connects to fakeserver through a port so that has been added to.

My firewall tells me that, shogun uses
port 1683
and
port 18321
It also connects to fakeserver on
port 8793,

aslong as you can forward the the datais to the right place those ports are what you need,

I.e

your real ip adress is,
123.456.789

and your router ip is 122.333.444

id expect it to be

inside adress 123.456.789:8793 outside adress 122.333.444:8793

inside adress 123.456.789:18321 outside adress 122.333.444:18321

[R'as al Ghul]

Anytime I host a game, doesn't matter if own fakeserver,
Shambles fake, or LAN my machine
listens to a random (so it seems) UDP port.
I've had several. In fact each time a different one.

I'd like to try to host a game, alt tab to my firewall,
check out which UDP it listens to, open that port,
alt tab back into lobby to check if people can see/join.

[Shambles]

Yeah every time the game conects to a server I.e my fake server.
It uses a random port.

it will use 1 after another till it finds a working 1.

I.e
I try to connect to fake server.
Shogun uses port 1221
Connection fails.
So i try again,
Shogun will now try port 1222.
If it fails and i try again
shogun will use
1223
And so on untill connection works,

this is nothing to do with actualy hosting games though,
thats just the Game connecting to a server,
Routers dont seem to mind this at all, and let you conect to the server ok.

Its just that when you host a game.
Your router says to the server.
"IM HOSTING A GAME HERE & MY IP ADRESS IS (222.333.444)"
Thats not a big problem
apart from the fact that The Pc Hosting the game has an ip of 123.456.789

So the router shoule be saying

"IM HOSTING A GAME HERE & MY IP ADRESS IS (222.333.444) BUT SEND THE INFO ON TO IP (123.456.789)"

any ports should be added aswell.

I.e

Your router is ip 123.456.789
and shogun uses port
123


Your pc's real ip adress is 222.333.444

You need to tell your router to.

Forward Data receved on 123.456.789:123
to
Your pc's ip adress and port number. 222.333.444:123

[Drisos]

R'as, my routers IP is 10.0.0.138 right? I should include that as outside IP.

But I still don't know my computers IP? (inside IP)

I should open ports 8793 18321 both udp and tcp

[x-dANGEr]

Just out of curiosity, how can you know what ports is a game using? I do have a Windows firewall (XP) along with a router. All I do is get dazzled till I know what are the ports needed then I forward them. But how can you know what ports are needed anyway?

[Just A Girl]

I use keriop personal fore wall.
Whenever i connect to shogun i go and check what port is used.
These ports change.

When i host a game i go check which posts shogun is now using.
It always uses The same port when you host.

Thats how i know to forward that port.