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Subject: How to play halo behind a router?
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I am trying to play Halo behind a router and I have been unable to succeed so far. I want to play over a LAN that is connected to the WAN port on my router with the xbox connected to one of the LAN ports on the router. For some reason the router does not relay the xbox's traffic beyond the router, as a result my xbox can only see other xboxes that are also connected to my router. I have tried making the xbox a DMZ and have also tried forwarding numerous ports but nothing has worked so far. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. I am desperate for some help with this.

Keith

  • 08.31.2004 6:37 PM PDT
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im not too sure if you can do a lan on a wan...

goweb probably knows. PM him

  • 08.31.2004 6:45 PM PDT
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Shouldn't the router just relay the xbox's packets outside the router? Techniquely the WAN is a LAN, the WAN is connected the my university's internal network. If not are there any tunneling programs? Not like gamespy or xbconnect, but a tunneling program that simply relays the xbox's packets outside the router and return packets from outside back to my xbox?

  • 08.31.2004 9:24 PM PDT
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Have you opened up your ports? I believe XBC uses 8602, I could be wrong though. Maybe its 8102. I can't remember. I do know that on XBConnect's Site there are plenty of FAQ's on the subject.

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  • 09.01.2004 3:22 AM PDT
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I don't use XBConnect

  • 09.01.2004 4:14 AM PDT
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It won't work if you have to connect to the WAN port. That is the way routers are designed to work. Have you tried turning off DHCP on your router and just plugging the campus line into your LAN side? You have to let the campus server handle the DHCP and LAN activity.

[Edited on 9/1/2004 6:37:45 AM]

  • 09.01.2004 6:36 AM PDT