Dedicated Server question for gaming

[klgray]

I'm trying to host a game (NOLF GOTY edition) as a dedicated server and want to pick your brains.

I contacted both my ISP and tech support for my for my Home Portal Networking Hardware. I was advised to find out from the exactly what type of application NOLF is. If you can answer that question for me, I will then be able to run a dedicated server.

I need to know if it's one of these application types:
(1)FTP
(2)PPTP (virtual private network server)
(3)Net2Phone
(4)IRC
(5)Blizzard Game Host
(6)DirectX Game (Direct Play) host
(7)RTSP (realtime streaming protocol) server
or (8)H.323-based Internet telephony

The next thing I need to know is whether I select UDP or TCP, and Port 27888 when I host the game!

* I have ADSL Home Networking
* My connection is "always on", but it also shows I use a PPPoE software to connects.
* I don't know what router I am using, but here the info I DO have: Model number: HomePortal 1000C
Phoneline networking: 0 HomePNA 2.0
Ethernet: 1 10 Mbps half-duplex
USB to PC: 0 Inactive

System Specs:
2.53 GHz Intel(R)Pentium(R)4 DDR Computer (763)
- 768 MB DDR SDRAM (2 DIMM)
- 80 GB Ultra DMA Hard Drive
- 128MB NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
- Sound Blaster Live 5.1 sound card
- Windows XP Pro

Any ideas?

[zaphodiv]

Presumably you are the same person who asked about this here with some more details.

Starting at the start and not being a gamer, google tells me
that you are talking about;

The Operative: No One Lives Forever: The Game of the Year Edition

The web site seems to be www.nolf.info but has no useful info.

You have a connection sharing NAT box which you want to configure
to allow incoming connections from game players out on the
internet to get through your router to the computer running the
game server.

Sierra has a forum here.
Since they made the game there is a reasonable chance of getting an answer there.


>The next thing I need to know is whether I select UDP or TCP,
>and Port 27888 when I host the game!

It may be easiest to forward both 27888 udp and 27888 tcp, you can use the same
port number on both simultaneously.

To figure out if it is tcp or udp I suggest the following.
1) open a DOS box (cmd.exe)
2) netstat -an
3) make a note of the output which is a load of stuff like
Proto local address
TCP 192.168.1.5:139
UDP 192.168.1.5:135
The bit after the colon in the local address is a listening port.
4) run the game server
5) Again do netstat -an
6) look what extra ports have opened, these are the ones the game is using.

The homeportal 1000c manual from here seems useless.

If the device dosn't have a basic "just forward some ports dagnabbit" mode,
the ftp option might do to forward a tcp port.