Multiplayer is just wrong. Or?

[Rabbit_]

Cant suggest to much more than others have offered, but us KISS principle.

 

 

For SERVER:

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Disable any Windows or third party Firewall. (temp while testing)

 

DCSW Server must have:

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Ports 10308 forwarded and working. - Put the port forwarding into your router and forwarding to the one Internal address of your dcs server.

 

If using a router DCHP to give your computers an Internal IP address, make a reservation in there for you main computer you are using for your server so that it always going to be the same IP address , other wise it is possible that the IP of the server may change after a reboot or the like, this did happen to me after a computer rebuild. (ie I had my IP as 192.168.1.10 and had all port forwarding to that address, but on a reboot, DHCP assigned it 192.168.1.11) so obviously the port forward was now sending the info to the wrong computer IP address.

 

Test that the port (10308 is indeed open):

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Using this Program to do that: http://portforward.com/help/portcheck.htm

 

The PFportchecker is a trial, but you can use the open ports check part for free.

 

If this passes on the UDP and TCP port 10308, you will get your external internet IP and an indication that the port is indeed open.

 

Attached are some screenies of what is needed.

 

Next run up your DCSW server, making sure it has the port 10308 as default and the public box is ticked.

 

 

Clients Computer:

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If they can logon to the eagle Dynamics master server and see other servers and connect to them and play, they should not have to do anything different their end to connect to your server. If they can't do this, then they should be looking at their Software firewall on Windows and either disabling it to just test if that is blocking or make sure it has allowed DCSW access.

 

They are not required to port forward 10308 in their router, but you could try it if in doubt.

 

Hope it helps, I know how frustration networking can be, lot easier these days, than it use to be.

 

Regards, Ian.

 

Thank You.

[Sabre-TLA]

Check out this link on how to setup a dedicated server.