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  1. Allow me to elaborate by Accipiter · · Score: 4 · on Playing Games Behind IP Masquerade?
    I've seem to have discovered that many people have viewed my question as vague.

    First off, to all you people saying "Read the HOWTO", let's make one thing clear. That was the first thing I did. As a matter of fact, I've read it *several* times over looking for the answer to my question. If it helped, I wouldn't need to ask. (The HOWTO is what got my Masq setup working in the first place. If I didn't read it, I wouldn't be using it.)

    Secondly, I have tried the port forewarder as well as the rulesets. None work. From extensive browsing of the boneyards site, I've found that Total Annihilation's Boneyards must allow ports 47624, and 2300-2400 for both TCP and UDP, as well as 9110 and 9113 for TCP. (P.S.: The instructions on the Masq Apps Page pertaining to Total Annihilation do NOT work with Boneyards. I've tried.)

    So after firing e-mail back and forth from Cavedog, and extensive trial and error, I have still not been able to do this. So I ask Slashdot. Then I get a bunch of people telling me to "Read the Manual.' Sorry folks, if it was that easy it wouldn't be an issue.

    -- Give him Head? Be a Beacon?

  2. HOWTO by whoop · · Score: 2 · on Playing Games Behind IP Masquerade?

    Heh, the first step is, "Have the newest 2.0.x kernel sources..." Is it a little outdated?

    Many games work quite easily nowadays with no modifying of the IP Masq setup. I've played Halflife, Tribes, Soldier of Fortune, Unreal Tournament just fine. Some things though need redirecting (it seems game companies slowly are getting smarter about this). Myth 1 and 2 were this way, a little sniffing and "ipmasqadm autofw -A -c tcp 6321 -r tcp 3453 3453 -u". This tells the firewall when someone goes out on port TCP/6321 (Myth's user logon), remember their internal IP and redirect port 3453 to them. For these, you're just left at one user per firewall. The games expect to connect at only port 3453 or whatever. They need reprogramming.

    There is a mail list talking about this, nat-peer-games. There isn't much traffic nowadays (21 for the year), but it was frequented by Activision folk in the early days. Somewhere around the archives there is detailed information on programming with UDP and how to properly write games that allow multiple people to use it on one NAT/IP Masq box.

    There used to be a web site listing several prorgams and their needed ports for redirecting at http://www.tsmservices.com/masq/, but the web server is down now. It seems many new games (especially FPS) allow multiple people (I know Tribes does, it even allows copies of the same CD to be played on servers), but more frequently the servers do some CD key check. So you'll need to buy multiple copies of games. ;)

  3. Other resources worth checking out by spaceorb · · Score: 4 · on Playing Games Behind IP Masquerade?

    Masq Applications (which doesn't appear to be up at the moment) has an index of all known workarounds and fixes to using software and games behind an ipmasq box. I've had a tough time getting everything working right until I checked it out, so it's definately worth a visit.

  4. port forwarding by blahtree · · Score: 2 · on Red Hat and Broken IPMasquerading
    When up I setup my network, I decided to upgrade to the 2.2 kernel because the firewall code had been re-written. Unfortunately, I found that this meant that there was a short supply of documentation.

    I had the same experience as you. Masquerading worked great. But no matter what I did, I couldn't get port forwarding to work. I recompiled, recompiled, and recompiled...to no avail. I tried using portfw, but no luck. I eventually gave up, since it wasn't all that important to me anyways. There are a number of forwarding utils that other people have written though. One such util is called redir...you should be able to find it on freshmeat.

    This site was also very helpful for getting masquerading to work with misbehaving programs.

    Good luck!

  5. Re:MASQing Myth by Joe+Rumsey · · Score: 1 · on Myth II Linux Demo

    I've played both Myth and Myth II from a masqed box, no problem. I don't know about more than one. Running a client on a masqed box doesn't require any special setup. Running a server just needs one port forwarded.

  6. Masquerade resources by httptech · · Score: 5 · on Ask Slashdot: IP Masquerading Drawbacks?
    Try this page: http://www.tsmservices.com/masq/

    You can find information there on getting just about any application working with masquerading.