Port forwarding for Warcraft 3 - no other posts have helped me solve this :

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Port forwarding for Warcraft 3 - no other posts have helped me solve this :

Hi everyone,
At risk of flogging a dead horse, I am having trouble with port forwarding/port mapping on my new AEBS and need help.

Warcraft 3 requires ports 6112-6119 open, which I had successfully set up through the Router Management Interface of my router (Speedstream 536 v6). Since I've set up the airport and run the router through it, I've been unable to host/join games on Warcraft, due to ports not being open.

I've since gone back in to the router setup and attempted to configure it. I've tried sending the open port traffic to the base station, to the computer, and a combination of each, but nothing seems to fix it.

Aside from port forwarding, it is working fine. My internet connection is flawless (a little slower than before airport ... or perhaps my imagination?), my Wii and XBOX360 both find the network fine (360 hard wired over ethernet due to wireless security issues ... see other threads!), but I can't play my warcraft games.

The help system (and some of the other threads on here) direct me to the Airport Utility -> Advanced -> Port Mapping. The problem is that on my advanced pane I only see:

- Logging and SNMP
- Bonjour
- IPv6

I've tried restarting the AEBS but get no joy. Is there something I'm doing that is fundamentally wrong? Can anyone help me? I'm not sharing the connection with any other computers, just wii and xbox, if that makes any difference.

If there's anything else you'd need to know, please ask me.

I look forward to your responses, and any help is most appreciated.

Regards,
GH

2GHz iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.9), 1.5GB RAM

Posted on Apr 11, 2007 2:09 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 11, 2007 4:29 AM in response to Geoff Harvey

If I understand correctly, you are attempting to use your AEBS as a second router behind (in series with) your existing your existing Speedstream 536. Both are likely doing NAT.

I believe all the Port Mapping problems will vanish if you simply configure your AEBS as a Bridge, specifically using Airport Utility, select your AEBS then on the Internet Connection panel, select Off (bridge mode) as your Connection Sharing choice. I would also undo the port mapping in your AEBS

Wireless clients will now be on the LAN created by your Speedstream router.

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Answer 2

Geoff Harvey Author

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Apr 13, 2007 10:07 PM in response to Bruce Thomson

Thanks for the response, but it has yielded no results, I'm afraid. The AEBS waas already in bridge mode (whatever that means), and the port mapping is setup properly for the modem.

I don't know what else to do. I bought this airport so I wouldn't have to keep plugging and unplugging my modem from xbox360/wii/mac, and so far the consoles and the mac internet work well, but gaming requiring open ports on my mac doesn't work at all.

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Answer 3

Geoff Harvey Author

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Apr 14, 2007 11:57 PM in response to Geoff Harvey

Sorry, my modem is a Speedtouch 536, not speedstream. I'm not sure that'll make a difference ...

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Answer 4

Apr 15, 2007 6:22 AM in response to Geoff Harvey

Well, if your AEBS is being operated as a bridge, then there cannot be any port mapping issues in the AEBS itself by definition as wireless clients and wired clients should all be on the same private LAN.

What IP address did you use when setting up port mapping in your wired router? Check to be sure that the IP of the computer where you want to run Warcraft matches that number.

You shoudl configure your Mac with the fixed IP of course.

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Answer 5

Geoff Harvey Author

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Apr 16, 2007 2:05 AM in response to Bruce Thomson

The IP address of my iMac is 10.0.0.1; the address of the Speedtouch is 10.0.0.138; the AEBS is 10.0.0.2, and the xbox360 (which the speedtouch sees as "Generic device") is 10.0.0.4.

On the speedtouch setup page, there's a lot of long-winded gibberish which I don't really understand, but perhaps it'll be of some use to someone more knowledgable on the topic. Each device has the following information:

iMac (which it lists as Unknown-00-11-24-bb-ef-96):
Information
Status: Active
Type: Generic Device
Connected To: ethport1 (Ethernet)
Addressing
Physical Address: 00:11:24:bb:ef:96
IP Address Assignment: DHCP
IP Address: 10.0.0.1
Always use the same address: No
DHCP Lease Time: 0 days, 16:34:40
Connection Sharing
Game or Service
War3
Warcraft III
(This is what I had named the settings which opened ports 6112-6119 on TCP and UDP respectively. As stated, it worked fine before the airport came along, and I've since tried removing and reinstating with no success).

Airport-Extreme
Information
Status: Active
Type: Generic Device
Connected To: ethport1 (Ethernet)
Addressing
Physical Address: 00:16:cb:c2:c3:2c
IP Address Assignment: DHCP
IP Address: 10.0.0.2
Always use the same address: No
DHCP Lease Time: 0 days, 16:38:05
Connection Sharing
There is no game or service assigned to this device.

Xbox360
Unknown-00-17-ab-4f-fa-a6
Information
Status: Active
Type: Generic Device
Connected To: ethport1 (Ethernet)
Addressing
Physical Address: 00:17:ab:4f:fa:a6
IP Address Assignment: DHCP
IP Address: 10.0.0.4
Always use the same address: No
DHCP Lease Time: 0 days, 16:31:45
Connection Sharing
There is no game or service assigned to this device.

Does any of this help at all?

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Answer 6

Apr 16, 2007 11:25 AM in response to Geoff Harvey

Well it looks to me that all the IP addresses of the various devices on your private LAN are reasonable and correct. I assume that the target computer for Warcraft is the iMac?

If so, I would consider Manually configuring the IP address on it to ensure that it always has the same IP address OR use your Speedtouch to reserve IP=10.0.0.1 for the iMac. [[If I am mistaken here, the same suggestions apply to whatever the target machine is.]] See the option Always use the same address: No and do what you have to to configure it as Yes

Your Port Mapping then would direct each of the port numbers from the Speedtouch to the IP of the iMac.

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Answer 7

Geoff Harvey Author

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Apr 17, 2007 4:36 AM in response to Bruce Thomson

Bruce, I'm very appreciative of your knowledge and persistence. A combination of those two virtues and incessent tinkering from me has somehow resulted in what seems to be a fix!

I'll see if I can work it out at some stage, and let you know where I was going wrong.

Thanks again

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