Unreal Tournament and games functionality

[Horza]

Hiya, I've been looking at Wingate for a solution to accessing Internet with my second comp.

I tried the MS-ICS but found it couldn't reliably forward all the ports needed in games so I turned to Wingate instead.

I'm on a LAN ethernet connection and I got 2 NICs in my "Router"-comp running Wingate5.2 and then I got my "Game"-comp with a Wingate client.

My aim is to run some basic servers on the router and use the second mainly for Gaming. Basically I need only the ICS/NAT-functionality as I got a Tiny Personal Firewall on both comps.
Also I got it installed w a permanent adress instead of DHCP to avoid getting spill-broadcasts onto my LAN, which upstes my ISP...

However, when I try to run f ex UT2004 I can connect to the UT master browser w/out any problem but I can only get say 8 servers pinged, then the rest go N/A. If I refresh the list they all go N/A. It sdeems there is a only a small window during which the Ping can take place and any subsequent refresh won't be let through.
I tried disbaling the Firewall in Wingate and in WGIC I gave it Global access as well as nonstandard connect seq, but none of it has helped.

Oh and if I connect the Gamecomp directly to my LAN I can run the games w no problem even w my firewall active so I don't believe the Firewall is the culprit.

I'm a bit stumped atm. Is there no way to redirect the ports the game needs or let through the pings?

Afaik UT2004 only needs ports UDP 7777-7779, TCP 28920, TCP 27920 for normal operation...

I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions on making it work...

[MattP]

Hi Horza,

Unreal should run ok behind WinGate as long as you're only using one player, which it sounds like you are. I would say that you will definitely have problems with Tiny personal firewall on the WinGate machine. We have seen numerous problems whenever a third party firewall product in installed beside WinGate so you should completely uninstall Tiny and try again. It's not usually enough to disable the other firewall as the drivers still load at startup. As you're already using NAT you'll have the WinGate firewall for protection.

Also, try and uninstall the WGIC from the client and just try a simple NAT connection. Open the ports that you need to open and redirect them through to the Games machine. Try don't translate source IP as well.

Regards,

Matt