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Draco Ignazio
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.09.07 21:22:00 -
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I've never had to setup port forwarding before. So this is a little new to me. For the most part, it seems simple. However, there are a few things I have questions on. In Sees-Too-Much's guide, (by the way, very simple and easy to understand). There is one part i'm confused on. When I go to the DMZ part of my router (Which is a Linksys EA3500 btw). There are 3 options:
Option 1.) Enable/Disable.
Obviously I need to enable. That part is easy.
Option 2.) Source IPv4 Address:
Now I can select Any IP address (which is what it is defaulted to) or I can put in a range. At the moment, it's set to Any.
Option 3.) Destination:
Now here, I can either put in an IP address or a Mac Address. At the moment, I have the Static IP address of my PS3.
Not sure if this is right. Afterwards, I have another question.
The GM listed two TCP ports to open, and two Ranges. Now for the range, I just went to Port Range Forwarding:
Then I put in 20000-21000 and set it to UDP. Now along the same line it also lists "To IPv4 Address". At this point, I put in the static IP address of my PS3, and clicked enable. I'm not sure if that's right. I did the same for the 12000-13000 range.
Assuming I did that right, the part that i'm curious about is the TCP ports. The GM listed the following:
"Backend communication needs TCP 443 and 80."
Now when I go to Single Port Forwarding, I have more options. I listed 443 as the external Port, and 80 as the internet port. I also directed the IPv4 Address to the static IP of my PS3. Then I clicked enable. I'm not sure if that's right though. Since he listed 443 and 80, would that be two separate things I need to set up? And if so, are they external or internal? What would be the missing Numbers? Am I directing the IPv4 Address to the right thing?
I tried researching this on Cisco's website to learn more, but after reading their explanations, it sounded like I don't need to use both port forwarding and DMZ at the same time. So i'm a bit confused. If I can do this two different ways, I'd prefer the safer more secure way. Thanks in advance for any advice you guys can give on this matter!! =) |
Draco Ignazio
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
6
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Posted - 2012.09.08 18:36:00 -
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Is there anyone that has experiencing with Port Forwarding that can tell me if I did it right? |
Draco Ignazio
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
6
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Posted - 2012.09.09 05:50:00 -
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Ok I changed the port forwarding for the ports to be open for the PS3. I couldn't find anything on portforward.com to explain how to setup DMZ, but I did some more research and it sounds like if the PS3 is in the DMZ, that it is exposed completely to the internet, and in this case, it sounds safer to only open the ports that Dust 514 requires to the PS3. Or would the DMZ work better for this situation? Your thoughts? |
Draco Ignazio
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
6
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Posted - 2012.09.09 19:50:00 -
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Ok cool. I went ahead and put my PS3 in the DMZ. It didn't fix my problem, but hopefully I won't have any future issues with ports. Thanks a lot ImaLeet. I appreciate your efforts, but at this point, I don't think it's anything on my end that I can do to fix this. My problem who just downloaded the beta a few days ago, has the same issue. He hasn't even created a character yet, and it sounds like from other posts, this isn't an isolated issue, so it's just wait and see. I did, however, already send them an e-mail with my IP, GMT, Region, Playstation Network name/e-mail and a list of everything i've already tried, to include safe mode options and the opening of ports. So we'll see what happens. thanks again! =) |
Draco Ignazio
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
6
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Posted - 2012.09.10 06:18:00 -
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I set them separately, and put 443 as external and internal, and I set 80 as external and internal. If i'm not supposed to put them in internal as well, then what do I put there? |
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