Network question...

Does Mxo require any open incoming ports on a router?

I will get a router (which i cannot administrate by myself) and need to know they should open some ports for me.

Thanks a lot.

Devaude-TGS wrote:

Does Mxo require any open incoming ports on a router?

I will get a router (which i cannot administrate by myself) and need to know they should open some ports for me.

Thanks a lot.

He Decaude-TGS,

You can see a list made by phi of all the ports the game requires at this link. If someone else will be settng up the ports, they may want to set up Port Triggering on port 7000 to open the required ports.

Hello Devaude-TGS,

Port triggering is pretty easy to understand, though it may sound cryptic. A quick netowrking tutorial (very quick) is probably in order.

Your network at home is not directly connected to the Internet. I can't just type in your computer's name, and have it appear in my Windows Network. I don't have immediate access to your computer or it's files just by knowing it's name. This is because your network is a 'walled garden'. There is a gate to this garden, but it is guarded. So even if I know where your compuer is, I can't get to it because that guard doesn't let me.

Inside that garden, you set up your computers to see each other, to share files, and to be completely open. You are only making them completely open to each other, not to the whole Internet.

When you want to get data from the Internet (like doing a search on google or buying from ebay) you send out messages. The guard allows your messages out, and allows replies to those messages to come back in. In most cases, the guard is smart enough to allow the replies back in, as well as directing them just to the computer that sent out the original requests.

Port triggering is a set of instructions to that guard. It's saying "When I send out a message that looks like this, I'm going to need to get all of the messages coming back that look like this.". Normally, your guard would not non-direct replies to messages through your network, so you could not get all the messages that look like this. You can only get the ones that are replies to this.

Your guard will now allow messages that look like this through the gate, as long as you first send out a message that looks like this. Since every time you start MxO, you have to send a message that looks like this, you will be able to receive all the data that the servers send to you, even though it's not a direct reply to you and looks like this.


And that's what port triggering is.

I'd like to apologize to any network gurus I have inadvertantly offended by my simplified explanation- we know it's more complicated than this, but the concept is there.

Thanks
Cory