Firewalls help...

**Kellicros** · January 26th, 2003

I have this weird problem when running Americas Army, I cant connect to the the server, in the tech support server, the staff there told me I have a firewall running. I am sure I have all firewalls disabled, but no help. However, the game works after entering all the port settings into WInXP build-in firewall and have it on.... Now my question is why on earth the game works only when the firewall is enabled? Is there another invisible build-in firewall running in winxp? Also, I have zonealarm installed, but I have it shutted down while running the game, can this be problem(well, maybe there's a service or something protecting the system even zonealarm is down...?)? Thanks in advance.

Drack · January 26th, 2003

Simply try shutting off the Windows XP built-in firewall, for diagnostic purposes. I could never get it to work with many of my online games. Otherwise you might have a hardware firewall installed that you don't even know about. Do you have a router/hub installed for your internet connection.

January 27th, 2003

Well Gamespy probably requires a specific listening and outgoing port for UDP And TCP,

Any kind of firewall will need those ports to be opened.

January 26th, 2003	#1 (permalink)
Kellicros Administrator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Posts: 7,686	Firewalls help... I have this weird problem when running Americas Army, I cant connect to the the server, in the tech support server, the staff there told me I have a firewall running. I am sure I have all firewalls disabled, but no help. However, the game works after entering all the port settings into WInXP build-in firewall and have it on.... Now my question is why on earth the game works only when the firewall is enabled? Is there another invisible build-in firewall running in winxp? Also, I have zonealarm installed, but I have it shutted down while running the game, can this be problem(well, maybe there's a service or something protecting the system even zonealarm is down...?)? Thanks in advance. __________________ Kellicros' DeviantArt

January 26th, 2003	#2 (permalink)
Drack Registered User Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: PDX, USA Posts: 1,187	Simply try shutting off the Windows XP built-in firewall, for diagnostic purposes. I could never get it to work with many of my online games. Otherwise you might have a hardware firewall installed that you don't even know about. Do you have a router/hub installed for your internet connection. __________________ Athlon64 +3200, GeForceFX 5900, 1024 MB DDR 400, nForce3 250Gb chipset 80 GB SATA Seagate , 80 GB 7200 RPM Seagate, 120 GB 7200 Seagate Lite-on SOHD-167T and Pioneer DVR-A06D Running XP Professional and SuSe 9.1

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January 27th, 2003	#3 (permalink)
ChrisRay Guest Posts: n/a	Well Gamespy probably requires a specific listening and outgoing port for UDP And TCP, Any kind of firewall will need those ports to be opened.