Guys, I have a question!

[Mooseahomanoo]

I was reading up in the manual, and I clicked on the FAQ button, was reading, and then came upon what I have been waiting for! It tells me how to work my server behind a firewall, but I don't understand what it means. It says "To get server to work behind firewall, nat, masq you need only to open/forward the server port (in the above case: 8767 UDP).". What in the hell does that mean? Lol. Could someone help me please!

[guldi]

having a router usually means that you have 1 WAN IP which is accessible thoroug hthe www. Behind your router you have LAN IP's which are ONLY accessible within your LAN. The Router is doing some sort of IP address translation for you => called NAT (network address translation).

The problem is, that without telling your router that there is a server in the LAN awaiting packets from the www, your server will never be accessible through the www. Port forwarding is the solution: it tells your NAT to forward traffic to a specific port (in this case the TS server port, default 8767 UDP) to a IP address in the LAN (the LAN IP of your TS server PC).

How to setup up: thats VERY router specific and therefore you have to consult and read your router manual by yourself. Look for port forwarding or sometimes called virtual server.


If you have any firewall in your network, make sure the (in the FAQ mentioned ports) are open.


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