Ports used by the client?

[Seidl]

If you can, would it be possible to find out
which ports the client are using to connet back to Troll? I can get the client to work through my home connection (which has a pretty good firewall), but not from a work server (which has a really tight firewall). Since I was interested in at least occasionally wandering around fromwork, I'd like to find out what I can do to get the client to work from work. http://www.skotos.net/ubb/smile.gif

So, I assume its using some high numbered ports after the initial startup. Might it be possible to find out what ports it scans across?

-=- Matt

[ChristopherA]

Originally posted by Seidl:
If you can, would it be possible to find out which ports the client are using to connet back to Troll? I can get the client to work through my home connection (which has a pretty good firewall), but not from a work server (which has a really tight firewall). Since I was interested in at least occasionally wandering around from work, I'd like to find out what I can do to get the client to work from work. http://www.skotos.net/ubb/smile.gif

So, I assume its using some high numbered ports after the initial startup. Might it be possible to find out what ports it scans across?

-=- Matt

This hopefully will be solved when we move the server next week. Right now everyone is actually running on the Engineering Team's server. That is why we have the occasional slowdowns when Engineering or Game Dev fixes things. This was convenient while we were doing the first few days of testing.

We have a more powerful computer that Marrach will be hosted on ultimately, and it resides also at our ISP so has a faster connection (not that speed is an issue yet.)

When that happens, we'll be remapping the ports to more firewall friendly ports. Let us know if it still doesn't work then.

One ultimate goal (probably not achievable soon) is that we'll optionally be able to piggypack completely on http port 80, with a real http syntax, so that we'll even work with http-state aware firewalls.

-- Christopher Allen

[Zell]

Originally posted by Seidl:
If you can, would it be possible to find out which ports the client are using to connet back to Troll?

Sure. I appreciate you politely asking rather than just doing a portscan and prodding everything that looks open!

With the caveat that not only will we move to another machine anytime now but we may also decide to switch port ranges anytime, all you currently need is port 8080 and port 8000; both for TCP. We don't use UDP now though we may in the future.

Zell

[Seidl]

Since 8080 is a common port for proxies, I'm guessing that a lot of corp. firewalls may block it. They will want the employees to use the corporate proxy, not some random one.

Although I'm sure piggy-backing everything onto port 80 will be a pain, it would be most appreciated. I'll continue to try things through the corporate firewall, but right now all I get is the Alice window with no text in it. http://www.skotos.net/ubb/frown.gif

-=- Matt aka. Martel