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From: Peter Kirby
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:57

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In article <miu1vtg0sqcvn44eehropefa60u7jk6737@4ax.com>, ian@abbott.org 
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> AIUI, Most online games aren't really compatible with NAT routers,
> particularly if several machines on the internal network need to play
> over the internet.

Indeed.. This will be a problem with certain games whichever way you try 
to get around it.

I noticed this recently in iptraf. I don't know what game it is but it 
uses UDP and packets go from port 27005 to port 27005. This means that 
on any NAT based network I believe only 1 person could connect and play 
at once. That is unless the server has some fallback measure which uses 
a different port number, or allows the remote port to be different that 
the server port.

But I guess this is just one game. And most machines on my network have 
a static IP anyway, so I cannot say if it works or now.

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From: Peter Kirby <peter.news@aworld.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Networking 20-30 PC's to the internet ..
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