Help with Counter Strike and SMC barricade

[coopa]

Has annyone here successfully played counter strike from behind the barricade? i cant connect to the game servers. i dont know how to drill any holes in the barricades firewall. im w/ stupud?
I get to the part where it tries 4 times to connect then it sayes it cant. i can see the games though.

I can play tribes withought any problem...

<thinkning to self>
if u guys can't help im going to have to pick up the banana like thing on my desk that you talk to, and push 1-800-smc-4you. i dont like bad music that comes out of that thing for an hour while i wait for human intellegence. i really dont. please help me.
</thinkning to self>

thanks.

 

[coopa]

well, i have waited this long to play cs, another day or 2 wont kill me...

 

[Rogue]

Did you open the proper ports in your firewall for CS? I think that you must have ports 27015 and 27016 open to play CS.

 

[coopa]

thanks rogue.
i havent opened ports- i dont know which ones. (i should make that clear whare i said &quot;drill holes&quot;

i think that there are more ports than just those. i remember seeing 27005 on 1 of the games but that was when i was hosting on my LAN so it doesnt matter.

 

[Wizkid]

Go to the SMC router setup page (http://192.168.123.254) and login. Click on &quot;Misc.&quot; on the left and put in your computer's IP after DMZ Host and check the enable box. Click &quot;Save&quot; and try to play...

 

[coopa]

thanks wizkid, that worked.

once i am done playing should i disable me being dmz?
maybe it would be a good idea to get static ip's for the 2 computers on my network...

thanks again

 

[TwoFace]

coopa, definitly disable dmz when you're done playing!! DMZ = DeMilitarizedZone a.k.a. OUTSIDE YOUR FIREWALL! Please check your shares too if you're sharing files on your LAN, make sure you don't share any drives, only folders. Disable filesharing completely if you don't use it. Oh and maybe you should get yourself a software firewall for those times when you're gaming. ZoneAlarm and BlackIce Defender are the two most popular ones I think. Look into that and keep security in mind at all times

Good luck

Two-Face

 

[Fausto]

I'll second the firewall idea. I have the Norton software firewall installed (free from Earthlink w/my DSL) and it seems I catch a trojan attempt every other day while I'm gaming online. Doesn't slow your down/up speed either (I checked).

Fausto

 

[coopa]

good idea. i have zonealarm but havent had it on because of the router. i didnt evan think to put it on while gaming.

man you guys think of everything.

 

[bex0rs]

DMZ is a pretty half ass solution. Just go into your Barricade's denial log after trying to connect to a server, see what ports are getting the denied packets, then forward those ports to your [internal] IP. Much less of a headache in the long run. There is also no point in having redundant firewalls.

~bex0rs