How to host shogun MP Games.

[R'as al Ghul]

If the game does not attempt to open a port when you begin hosting games, that implies That its not the routers fault, and your game is not functioning properly,

Ahh, now you're talking business. That's exactly what I've thought.

Id love to tell you whats wrong with your game, But I dont suffer this problem,
So i cant really work on fixing it,

I understand that perfectly. Nevertheless I appreciate that you took
the time to look into it.
I take it we have reestablished peace now?
I apologize for getting .... impatient and slightly mad.

Some where along the line something is either blocking shogun from opening aditional ports. I.e Fire wall.
Windows fire wall Could be causing problems for some,

It's really a dilemma.
I've XP firewall disabled.
Sygate firewall allows Shogun everything but I keep it running to monitor the connections. I had turned it off once to test with drisos.
Directplay test of Directx returned positive.
I've Upnp enabled.
My router forwards the posts - 100% positive here.

As Shambles said, it looks like my Shogun.exe is not working properly
because it doesn't listen to the host port 18321 when on WAN (only when on LAN).
I really would like to see the firewall-logs of others who can't host,
just to know if their games at least open the port.