port fowarding

wheatlake · 04-15-2007, 04:58 PM

i always have thought of port fowarding being used when there are apps on your computer using certain ports that the router blocks. do routers/firewalls block connections to remote ports on servers. i was looking in game documentation for battlefield 2 and it recommends making sure that ports on remote servers are opened in router. are these ports two way traffic? is that why. i thought local port and remote port are always different? plz help very confused.

Can someone plz reply i need help. going insane here

Vinaygk · 04-16-2007, 01:16 AM

Local port and remote port are the same. You need to open the same ports for both. Without opening ports you will always have the problems playing games online.

04-15-2007, 04:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
wheatlake Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 5 OS: windows xp	port fowarding i always have thought of port fowarding being used when there are apps on your computer using certain ports that the router blocks. do routers/firewalls block connections to remote ports on servers. i was looking in game documentation for battlefield 2 and it recommends making sure that ports on remote servers are opened in router. are these ports two way traffic? is that why. i thought local port and remote port are always different? plz help very confused. Can someone plz reply i need help. going insane here Last edited by wheatlake : 04-15-2007 at 05:23 PM.

04-16-2007, 01:16 AM	#2 (permalink)
Vinaygk Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Bangalore Posts: 14 OS: XP	Re: port fowarding Local port and remote port are the same. You need to open the same ports for both. Without opening ports you will always have the problems playing games online.