- DusK
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- Noble Legendary Member
Trust me, he put it nicely. There is absolutely no reason for you to make another thread about the same problem.
Speaking of research, your problem could easily be solved with minimal effort on your end with a little of that research. For example, 2 minutes of research on my end yielded that your model number, which you failed to give us, is most likely an A-90, and this is the screen you're having trouble with. Following this guide shows where you made your mistake; Your IP address doesn't go in the BasePort field. Hence your error message about invalid characters; A period is an invalid character for a port number. Actually, anything other than 0-9 is an invalid character for a port number.
So go ahead and follow that guide I linked, which a little research on your end would have yielded you faster that it takes to open a new thread about the same subject, let alone type up a long and drawn-out explanation of your problem including copypasta of the text from your router's control panel that you hilariously thought wouldn't look like a big jumble of crap if posted to a forum.
Now that that's done, I'm gonna hammer down a couple of points that you're not gonna like.
1. Most people who play HPC, save for the ones who really shouldn't be PC gaming at all, prefer dedicated servers over player-created servers. The reason is simple; HPC has really bad netcode, and in a player-made server, that translates to a massive host advantage. The only way to have a fair game of HPC is in a dedi. So given that, even if your server were to show up in the lobby, you shouldn't be holding your breath waiting for players, because chances are good that nobody wants to play on it anyway.
2. If you can't figure out port forwarding using nothing but your router model and a quick Google search, which is probably one of the easiest things you could possibly do short of naming your SSID (Hell, I managed to do it with a couple of short keywords and I didn't even have your model number), then hosting a Halo server that people are going to want to play on (a dedi) is going to be completely beyond you.
These are simple topics. You should consider first learning how to use your router before learning to use Halo server software. But before all that, I suggest you learn how to use Google to find these ridiculously easy answers before posting two threads about it and expecting someone to jump up and hold your hand through the process.
[Edited on 11.25.2011 8:10 PM PST]