- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
It depends on the router, and how configurable your router is. You don't really bypass it, you setup a NAT (Network Address Translation) table.
For example: lets say your router has an outside IP of say 69.69.69.69 and your computer connected to the router has an internal IP of say 192.168.69.101. Your Halo server is hosted from 192.168.69.101 on port 2302 (by default) but the rest of the world can only see your router, so they think the server is at 69.69.69.69:2302. In your router configuration you should be able to setup the NAT table to allow port 2302 to "map" to the IP address of the computer you're hosting from. I do it all the time, and it works well.