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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 6:24 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Masq] Making Sense Of It All
>
>
> I do have an initial question for the gurus out there. I have two
> machines behind my Redhat 6.0 (2.2.12-20 Kernal) box,
> masqarading out to
> a DSL connection. I found some information on how to use ipmasqadm to
> configure it to allow DirectX games to work through the
> proxy. A sample
> of it is below:
>
> ipmasqadm autofw -A -v -r udp 2300 2400 -h www.xxx.yyy.zzz
>
> There are other steps ports also, but the commands are all
> similar to
> the above example, so I'll spare ya. I'll put a link below
> for where I
> got this. Anyway, as you can see, this command SPECIFIES
> which host to
> allow these ports, which is great for that machine, but
> doesn't do much
> for the other system behind the firewall. Is there some way
> I can open
> up that range of ports either to more then one machine or just
> "generically" open them up to any machine behind the firewall? Thanks
> for the help!
Not really. The problem is that most of the time they have people writing
the multi-player support who don't even know how to spell "proxy", let alone
what one is. DirectPlay can work without port forwarding, but usually
doesn't. I've written the game manufacturers of the games I play that don't
work, and asked them to supply "nat friendly" patches to their games, or at
least take this into consideration for future games. Only people who I've
had good responsed from are Blizzard.
Greg
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