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Battlefield 1942 & Sonicwall Firewall

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MoboMojo

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My son just got around to opening up and installing his 2 year old copy of Battlefield 1942 (a birthday gift he put aside and never got around to).

Now, he's trying to play over the internet with his cousin, but cannot connect to a server. There is a full list of servers shown, along with number of users, name of server, etc., so I know the game *is* connecting to the internet to retrieve that info. But, he keeps getting a "connection failed" message everytime he tries to connect to a specific server.

We are using an old Sonicwall (original SoHo) firewall. I've set up services and rules to open the ports specified in the users manual and on the battlefield 1942 website, but no go.

Is anyone running this game successfully behind a Sonicwall? I did a google search and some posts that are over 4 years old indicated that internet game-playing is not easily done on the Sonicwall.

Any help is appreciated.
TIA

mobo.....
 
The Sonicwall should have nothing to do with it. I didn't have a problem back when I was playing it online and I had an original SOHO. What firmware are you running?
You should only need to open up the ports if you are hosting a game. Sonicwall lets all ports outbound by default.
 
Thanks, Lanyap! Installed the 1.6 upgrade and that seems to have done the trick!

Mboy, thanks for the Sonicwall advice. I'm gonna close up those ports if they don't need to be open.

My son will be real happy when he gets home from school.
 
You are going to wish he left it unopened.
He won't get anything productive done for quite a while now.😀

Did you check the box to install punkbuster?
If not, make sure you do that or you will be stuck only playing on non-pb servers filled with cheaters.
Also, if you don't have it, download All-Seeing Eye. It's a much better server browser than the in-game one.
 
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