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hwb0014
10-26-2002, 10:05 AM
I have RH8 and am running a firewall behind my Linksys router. I have ip forwarding applied for my router but I can get out to battlnet just fine through my firewall. But the weird thing is I cannot create custom games but I can join others. Could the firewall be denying me from making myself the host of these games? I'm on a limb here but I've exhausted all other resources.
jumpedintothefire
10-26-2002, 01:15 PM
most likely, or the router is misconfigured. What are you running as a firewall??
hwb0014
10-26-2002, 01:27 PM
im running iptables but currently there are no rules defined...
jumpedintothefire
10-26-2002, 01:30 PM
What is the default policy?? What does iptables -L give you??
hwb0014
10-26-2002, 03:30 PM
iptables -L is blank; nothing defined
jumpedintothefire
10-26-2002, 03:41 PM
example output:

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 443 packets, 444K bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination

What is the policy ACCEPT?? DROP??
Riley
10-26-2002, 04:02 PM
In the days of starcraft I had that same problem when playing from windows when I had my firewall on.
So when I wanted to create a custom game I just turned off the firewall and it worked.
hilophilo
11-30-2002, 06:49 AM
all you need to do to create games on battle.net is to open port 6112 on your router.
hwb0014
11-30-2002, 10:47 AM
To join battlenet yes but not to create games due to internal and external ip address conflicts
hilophilo
12-02-2002, 02:05 AM
you tried fowarding port 6112 on that linksys router of yours to your computer ip wheere you tryin to create the games? strange.. thats all i did with my linksys router and i was able to create "wc3" games on battlenet.
hwb0014
12-02-2002, 07:50 PM
you might be able to create, but noone can join it because I'm running dual NAT