Everquest 2 - Firewall Info

[Claritin]

Official Link at Sony's Website - Regarding Firewalls

[Klarion Eyez]

0.0 Good god! I sure hope I don't understand that. Especially the part about "campus and office networks" and "Internet connection sharing services". We have a network hub that I share with my families computers to connect to our DSL service. Is this what they mean by "Internet connection sharing services"? And it won't work at college?! WTFH?!

p.s. Please dont tease my semi-total lack of networking knowledge

[Brikk]

No, they just mean that "they" aren't going to help you set up "your" network to run the game. But, relax, there is plenty of brain power here to help sort out any problems.

Just remember, nobody here is getting paid to help you either.... They're just cool like that

[Klarion Eyez]

Thank goodness

[tolvar]

Getting this to work on ISA Server will be fun...NOT!!

[Odinwray Treewalker]

bleck i hope my NAT can be made to work with everquest 2, ive ordered the collectors ed.. bah i really hope this works.

[OnyxRaven]

I've been on various forms of NAT and it works fine - the guidelines above seem a little... cautious.

[Auberon Feykin]

I'm firewalled well enough to need to open ports for p2p apps, but EQ2 worked just fine for me during Beta without touching my router's firewall. Hopefully this is not that big of an issue . . . I certainly never heard any complaints during Beta about people having firewall issues.

[ailees]

EQ2 has the same problems than EQ1 : you don't have any parameter that allows you to use a true firewall.
Let's suppose you are playing in a place where you must cross a ROUTER before the FIREWALL, then you are in trouble and must get a 3d party programm.
Of course the only place where you need to cross a router before a firewall is at work, and you don't play at work, do you ?

[crylon]

umm, ya, actually work is the only place I play... but didn't have problems with EQ live, so I'm gonna have problems with EQII?

[duveen]

[crylon]

well it turns out I had no problems after all... so you probably shouldn't sweat it...

ENJOY~

[Zerik_Sedai]

can someone give me a a passage with port numbers and all for eq1? thanks so much for posting the eq2 one, i've been concerned about that for some time. i have a friend who's going to keep playing eq1 while is tart eq2 (until i get him hooked), and we have a messed up internet firewall at college. when we cast spells u dont actually start casting till about 5 secs later, and when u chase a mob, u have nooo idea where it really is. really sucks, limits a lot of how good u can be skill wise. and no soloing unless it's undead and they dont run.

[oreotho]

I'm also having problems with my School/Dorm's firewall..Apparently they block ICMP broadcasts. Anyone know of any programs or ways around this? My eq2 life depends on it .

[Syntaxx]

hmmph so what ports would prob need to be open for Port forwarding when playing EQ2? i have a feeling i might not even have to mess wit my firewall to play eq2.