Networked Home PC's hosting same game

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Hi Brian,

Take a look at DXPORT from puffinsoft.com which should
help you to assign specific ports to each node. Good luck! :-)

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"Brian Kitt" <brian_kitt@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I am a CCNA, and consider myself fairly knowledgable on
> PC's, but I have not programmed any directplay, so I am
> stumped on this problem. I have multiple PC's in my
> house behind a router, 1 for each of my children. They
> would all like to be able to host multiple player online
> games. Let's take Age of Mythology, for example. Each
> child would like to host a game for his/her friends to
> join.
> I forward ports, 6073, and 2300-2400 to the machine
> running the game. This works perfectly for that machine,
> but then they want to host from a different machine, I
> have to change the port forwarding to that machine. Does
> anyone have any clever ideas of how to do this
> automatically?

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>-----Original Message-----
>I am a CCNA, and consider myself fairly knowledgable on
>PC's, but I have not programmed any directplay, so I am
>stumped on this problem. I have multiple PC's in my
>house behind a router, 1 for each of my children. They
>would all like to be able to host multiple player online
>games. Let's take Age of Mythology, for example. Each
>child would like to host a game for his/her friends to
>join.
>I forward ports, 6073, and 2300-2400 to the machine
>running the game. This works perfectly for that machine,
>but then they want to host from a different machine, I
>have to change the port forwarding to that machine. Does
>anyone have any clever ideas of how to do this
>automatically?
>.
>

Sorry but I need help in this myself. I cant even get a
game to host on any computer. Can I only do it on a host
machine or can I host from a client. I just got my first
router yesterday and cant figure out how to do the ports
right. I opened them all but I think I made a mistake
somewhere. Its a Linksys and if you can tell me how to
open the ports and if that may not be enough I could
really use the help. And I made a static IP address.

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Hi,

Home routers are tricky which is why Linksys offers
their customers a 1-800 number for direct support. :-)

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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:373301c471a6$deb80c10$a501280a@phx.gbl...
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >I am a CCNA, and consider myself fairly knowledgable on
| >PC's, but I have not programmed any directplay, so I am
| >stumped on this problem. I have multiple PC's in my
| >house behind a router, 1 for each of my children. They
| >would all like to be able to host multiple player online
| >games. Let's take Age of Mythology, for example. Each
| >child would like to host a game for his/her friends to
| >join.
| >I forward ports, 6073, and 2300-2400 to the machine
| >running the game. This works perfectly for that machine,
| >but then they want to host from a different machine, I
| >have to change the port forwarding to that machine. Does
| >anyone have any clever ideas of how to do this
| >automatically?
| >.
| >
|
| Sorry but I need help in this myself. I cant even get a
| game to host on any computer. Can I only do it on a host
| machine or can I host from a client. I just got my first
| router yesterday and cant figure out how to do the ports
| right. I opened them all but I think I made a mistake
| somewhere. Its a Linksys and if you can tell me how to
| open the ports and if that may not be enough I could
| really use the help. And I made a static IP address.