Steve Currington <steve.currington@totcom.co.nz> wrote:

> I have a buddy who is trying to play Asherons Call through the MS Gaming
> Area.

  [ trimmed ]

> According to Microsoft's Product Support web site the following is
> recommended
> Initial UDP Outbound - IP Address 207.46.204.* - Port(s) 9000
> Subsequent UDP Outbound - IP Address 207.46.204.* - Port(s) 9000, 9008,9012

  These shouldn't be a problem, as I'd interpret "Outbound" as meaning
that the machine running Asheron's Call will attempt to connect to the
given ports on any machine in the 207.46.204.* range (the Asheron's Call
servers, I assume.) The inbuilt NAT on the sharing device should handle
outbound connections without a problem.

> Subsequent UDP inbound - IP Address 207.46.204.* - Port(s)
> 9000,9001,9004,9005,9008,9009,9012,9013

  This is the part you need to worry about. However, since they're
inbound connections and the sharing device doesn't seem to care about the
source address, the IP range given here is completely irrelevant. What
you want to do is map ("pinhole", in Nokia ADSL terms) each of the ports
given above through to the equivalent port on the machine that's running
Asheron's Call.

> However the Sharing Device configuration software asks for the following
> info:
>
> Name (that is a common name so easy)
> Enable (Yes or No ) (again obvious)
> IP Address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
> Internal Port Number XXXX (i.e. 9000)
> External Port Number XXXX (i.e. 9000)

  I'd assume that "IP address" means the internal IP address to which
incoming traffic should be redirected, so you want the internal (ie LAN)
IP address of the machine running Asheron's Call in that field. It
doesn't look like the device can map a range of ports, only one per entry,
so you'll need to enter 8 separate port mappings. Each of these should
map one of the external ports specified above (9000, 9001, 9004 etc) on
the sharing device to the same internal port on the machine in question.

  I also note that the traffic is UDP, not the more common TCP. It's not
mentioned anywhere above, so check to make sure that the sharing device
will map UDP traffic correctly.

  Finally, please lose the attached JPG from your messages. It's really
not serving any useful purpose...

   Jonathan

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Received on Fri Mar 9 12:55:51 2001