FG Knowledge Base - Firewalls

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Originally Posted by damned

Welcome on3moda. There is no reason why this cant be made to work thru PfSense. Have you any other stateful packet inspection or similar going on. What do your PfSense logs say?

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Got it. I needed to add PASS.

Good work on3moda!

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Originally Posted by tadkil

Need some help accessing port 1802 & connecting to the FG server to host a game. I am not a hardware person at all, but do well with RTFM for most GUI software. I have created rules in my firewall that should allow 1802 to work. That was relatively easy. Completely stumped at this point. Any help would be appreciated.

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So now Tadkil attempted to connect to my game server last night and was running into connection issues. I configured port forwarding on my router and put in my machine's dynamic ip address. Do I need to setup my machine with a static ip address? Do I need to setup port forwarding on the modem to send the signal to my router's ip address?

I always recommend using a static IP address when using port forwarding, as otherwise you're telling your router to forward traffic to an IP address that may change. If you statically assign your IP on your computer--or at the very least set up a DHCP reservation so that your machine always gets the same IP; particularly recommended path if you need to use wifi--then you can be assured that the traffic will aways be forwarded where it needs to go.

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Originally Posted by Baron28

So now Tadkil attempted to connect to my game server last night and was running into connection issues. I configured port forwarding on my router and put in my machine's dynamic ip address. Do I need to setup my machine with a static ip address? Do I need to setup port forwarding on the modem to send the signal to my router's ip address?

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I think that tadkils issue might be at his end. Im trying to work thru that with him.
It looks like FG might still be getting blocked outbound on hos computer.

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Originally Posted by damned

I think that tadkils issue might be at his end. Im trying to work thru that with him.
It looks like FG might still be getting blocked outbound on hos computer.

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I'm on the FG teamspeak if you need anything from me. Thanks for helping out.

i need some help getting my friend to connect..i have a netgear10 and i read thru all this but im not technical savvy with all this modem coding stuff :(

Did you get this sorted out? Also, I'm not seeing any results for Netgear10 in their production lineup. Do you have a model number on the label on the back/bottom (like WNR2000 or something)?

I just got a new computer and upgraded my internet speed and after running FG for over a year, I can't connect. Some of the players helped me set up a static ip and I still couldn't connect. I bypassed my router and went straight to my modem and I could connect and the players could connect to me but at about 15 minute intervals I was disconnected from all the players and then reconnected- very frustrating. I have a Arris modem tm822g and Belkin 600n router. I have made sure that the firewall is allowing FG through. thanks in advance.

sent you a PM.