FG Knowledge Base - Firewalls

[damned]

What TS Server and what is your Nick?

[Trenloe]

What TS Server and what is your Nick?

You need to drink some coffee, mate. You're slow this morning!

[damned]

You need to drink some coffee, mate. You're slow this morning!

I drink COKE - but my wife is making me cut back. Waaaaay back.

[Big Daddy Bull]

Good morning.

I am currently struggling with being able to set up for a game. When I use the run test it fails quickly. Flashes in progress then quickly fails. I have read through this forum and tried most of the options here and was still unable to get mine to work. I have no doubt it is on my end and attempted to trouble shoot with this forum.

What I have tried all at once and separate.
Opened port TCP 1802 in my router
Disabled my firewalls in router and on my computer
Also changed to static
I do not believe I am behind another provider router as it is only a power supply and cable.

I was able to connect locally with another computer but the Run Test always failed. I would love to get this resolved, any help would be great.

Thank you in advance!
BD

[damned]

Welcome Big Daddy Bull. Please check your Private Messages https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/private.php

[Trenloe]

Opened port TCP 1802 in my router

Could you expand on what you did here? Just "opening" port 1802 isn't enough - you'll need to use port forwarding to forward TCP communications on port 1802 to the internal IP address of your GM computer where you run Fantasy Grounds.

Also, as first steps to get this working, make sure you only have one network connection active - disable wireless if you're on a wired connection, disable any virtual networks you might have (VPNs, Virtual Machines, etc.).

[damned]

Double NAT and Satellite....
No access to Satellite Router at this stage.
Once he gets access to Satellite router he will need to do this:

Port Forward TCP 1802 to 192.168.0.200 which is external IP on Internal router/wifi.
This is already properly setup to forward tcp 1802 to his PC.

[Big Daddy Bull]

Good morning! Damned you are the best!

After discussing and trouble shooting with Damned (who did an awesome job, FYI) I had to contact my ISP. I contacted them which led to more problems for me. I asked for credentials to log into the router which was shot down. I asked if they could forward TCP Port 1802 through their router and they explained that they did not block ports on their side. They questioned me about hosting and I explained that to my knowledge I am connecting to FG's server and they are hosting but I could not say for sure. Sorry for my ignorance. If someone could clarify if I will be hosting through my network or not. If I am hosting they will disconnect my service as it is a violation of the residential service agreement. He proceeded to explain they will be monitoring.

Long story short he explained all kinds of network I.T. stuff that I don't understand and said I needed to set up a something dedicated( WAN I think he said) and gave me a list of IP, subnet mask stuff. Way beyond my capabilities.

Damned mentioned a work around maybe? But if I will be hosting on my network I will not be able to do that. Need to clarify that to see if I even need to change things on my end.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[Trenloe]

In theory you are "hosting" - but you are just hosting a game that a few of your friends will occasionally connect to, and you won't be permanently running a game (i.e. people won't be connecting all of the time). You aren't hosting a website, nor are you hosting permanent library/data/downloads, etc.. Your upload to your friends computers will be in the area of 10's of MB per game session, nothing more.

Point them to the FG website and the networking FAQ for more info: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...faq_networking

[damned]

Big Daddy Bull - you are hosting the game - but you are not hosting a web server or email server or even a public game server. Its a server for a couple of hours a week for 3-6 friends.

2 suggestions - https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...ng-Try-Hamachi
and this: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...warding-issues

The first is no cost but you AND your players need to do the Hamachi thing.
The other way only YOU need to do the VPN.

Ill help you with one or the other - later.... its now 330am and I still have to get up at 5am....