setting client to use fixed port

[ramrock3]

Hi,

i've got my teamspeak server up in a dmz.
in order for me to connect to it from my lan i need to define a port for the client to use.
I can't open up the hole range of ports for the client, so please tell me that there's a switch i can launch the client with so it will use the same port every time! O=-)

If not a switch on the client, can i set a parameter on the server side, so my ip will be give a set port?

Yours,

Thomas

p.s.
I run a smootwall linux firewall, and if i where to open up the whole port range i'd have to make one entery per port and i rather not have to do that.
p.s.s.
I've used smoothwall for some time and run different things in my dmz, and i can see, in the smoothwall logs, that it's the radom selection of ports the client uses that creates the problem.

[guldi]

1) you can not tell the server on which port it should send back to the client ! You can only set a port the server is running on.

2) If you really need to run the server in the DMZ, then open up the whole range but only for specific destination IP's (I assume you knwo the IP of the client).

[ramrock3]

-Then i have to manually enter each every one of the possible ports one by one!.. :o/

as for need for dmz?? COMON!!.. YES!.. i have about 100-150 advanced skripkiddis trying to bring down my gameserver every week!...

..don't think there will be any teamspeakserver for my gameserver players, opening up that many udp ports and keeping track of the traffic log ins't my idea of R&R..

-hope u fix this in a later version, cuz otherwise ur systems was neet. :-)

..though in my case and for ppl how need to keep higher security, opeing up a 1000 ports just so one client can get access isn't good system design! ;o)

Ramrock

[ramrock3]

Fiddeling through my drawers full of cables, dead HD's and other tech stuff it came to me! :-))

By putting up the Teamspeak server in the dmz, and aslo installing the teamspeak client on the same machine, and then sending the input / output audio to a machine inside my LAN
-security is upheld, and i have no problems with using Teamspeak.. |-)

(I'm using a KVM switch to change between my computers both inside the lan and the DMZ, so now it's actually easier to check teamspeak client and stay in the game.. )

-Hope this can be of benefit to others aswell.. |-)


Ramrock
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