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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Multiplayer Ports

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Sph!nx
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Posted: 26th Mar 2011 00:17 Edited at: 26th Mar 2011 00:19
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Hey everybody,

I've made some good progress on my project and I'm at a point that I wish to experiment with multiplayer. I did some research and I've got several plugins and addons (including DarkNET).

Now I kinda thought I've outgrown the newcomers corner by now but I must be asking something very n00bish because I haven't been able to find any topics on this but I can't seem to get the multiplayer example (native DB pro code) to work. I'm pretty sure I need to open some ports on my router but what ports does DB pro needs? If it even needs specific ports...

Thanks ahead!

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Well, I can get the compiled .exe to work just fine but I cannot seem to make a connection when I run it on the other computers on my network.

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Sph!nx
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Posted: 26th Mar 2011 15:59
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Ok, I've got it to make connection within my router. No ports forwarding was needed.

Though, it probably does need port-forwarding when trying to connect with a PC outside of my own network. Like I said, I know how to access my router and all, but what settings does DB-pro require?

Thanks!

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IanM
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Posted: 26th Mar 2011 19:29
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DBPro uses DirectPlay (which is now deprecated by Microsoft, which is why it's difficult to find information on it now).

Anyway, I believe the ports required are UDP 2300-2400 and 6073.

I don't believe that any TCP ports are involved any more, but a simple 'netstat -an' should tell you if your program is listening on any TCP ports.

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Sph!nx
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Posted: 27th Mar 2011 14:55
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Thanks a lot Ian, just what I needed!

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