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  Mtu failing for xbox live
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  Found the problem, Xbox Live is down today as they roll out the new updated dashboard etc Status: As we gear up to bring you the New Xbox Experience, Xbox LIVE and the Xbox LIVE page on Xbox.com will be down for 24 hours, beginning on September 29, 2008 from 12:01 AM PST until 11:59 PM PST. During this time you will not be able to access Xbox LIVE.
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  All Halflife related games are not possible
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  i play counter-strike and TF2 without any port forwards or anything without ANY problems whatsoever, im just having trouble hosting a server.
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  Another Counter-Strike Server problem…
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  no they CAN connect thru my public IP… for some reason my server on my LAN shows up as offline when i look up the public ip to ME, but when anyone tries to connect to it who is not on my LAN, they can see adn connect just fine.  if i try connecting via my public WAN ip, it doesn't go, but if anyone else does, it does. people who are and are not on campus with me.
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  Latency
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  I had the same problems in the past yer , but i resolve with a new configuration system. I change the network cards in to a gigabyte "intel" 1000 full duplex and the ram "512 ddr333 to 1024 ddr 400 I have better connection and lag then i play alone with single pc without any firewall ex : ping 5-10 metro loss=0  choke=0 "  ping 20-30 europe loss=1-3  choke=max5'  ping 30-50 usa loss= 2-8 choke= max 20 ps: u have to change this
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  Problem with logging in Garena
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  I didn't mean you're wrong You're correct Start from the day using pfsense I can't even go further like successfully login smoothly So don't even need to talk about hosting a game ( In garena, it's not necessary to do port forward if you want to host a game ) ( I tried before when i was still using cheap router ) About the pictures that i shown Although i can login that sometimes But i can do nothing also eventhough it was logged in Because it will show me connection to server failed when i tried to join a room So, it's useless for me to login garena also Can't play, so, what's the point in logging in? I'm just wondering why surfing net is ok with pfsense MSN, YM, also able But why all the games not working as before I tried the static port already, not working also ???
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  UPnP and multiple Xbox 360s (4-8)
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  The shaper seems to be working very well now!  UPnP is working great as well.  I've attached a screenshot of what my uPnP status page looks like.  I don't think there are too many routers out there that can handle this kind of usage.  Thank you PFsense devs for making the ultimate gaming router / firewall!
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  Gaming over PPTP
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  It should work just compile it in a freebsd system and you can have it working in pfSense normally.
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  PS3 Online Connection
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  Hmm, very odd that you are having problems. I've all my equipment on DHCP, and have created static DHCP entries for them. Of course DNS is pointing to the firewall, as well as Default Gateway. Then I've enabled UPnP on the Firewall, X-box360 and PS3. The firewall has UPnP forbidden for everything, except the X-Box360 and PS3's IP addresses. This works without any sort of problems. They get the best NAT possible both, I see ports open and close according to the different games and states the machines are in. Here at work I've tried as well, and here I see problems, but my guess is that it has something to do with some of the ancient switches we have here :-(
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  Why logging in to Garena is HARD like HELL ?
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  I have tried on your way but it isn't work  :-\ Looking for kind soul to help me  :'(
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  XBOX 360 streaming problem
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  Ya they ended up on the right track there…but you can use a switch....in this case here he had a 2950...He could have had anything setup on that switch, even without him knowing.  who knows, whoever had the switch may have had 2 different Vlans or even some ACL's (access control lists, basically a manual firewall for a switch of that type) on it...It could have been several different issues.  I didn't see this post earlier, I probably could have helped.  Nonetheless it should have worked, my bet was a configuration error on the cisco switch.  That's an enterprise class switch and not some soho linksys or dlink type.  It has much more things you can configure than a home or office router/switch.
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  Xfire and Call of Duty 2
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  Thanks for the advice I tried Static Port option and things are looking better. Thanks Guys. @GruensFroeschli: have you tried the static port option? http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7001.0.html
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  Online games lag
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  You might want to take a look into the traffic shaper.
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  Blocking XBOX 360 traffic
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  Please do not post the same in multiple forums. Can you show a screenshot of your rules? Did you read the notes next to the schedules? When working with pfSense based schedules, the logic is a bit different from the normal pfSense rules. For example, the rules are evaluated from top to bottom. If you have a pass rule and the rule is outside of the schedule, the traffic will be BLOCKED regardless of pass rules that occur after this rule. In these cases you will want to change the pass rule to a block style rule to get the needed functionality.
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  UT2004 Server & PFSense NAT Issues… I know, I know :(
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  Look in diagnostics -> states.  The source port will match the destination port if static port is working.  Also do not forget to clear your states after making the static port changes.
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  Cannot connect to a game.
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  thanks, I got the information i needed pretty quick when looking at: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Static_Port. I just did what the above said, added a rule for all of my subnet to use only one wan when using the range of ports this game uses and walah im up and running. This firewall is great… I have a few more issues to work out but functionality is working great.
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  Counter Strike Dedicated server
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  Can you describe how it "does not work"? Are you sure that you followed the manual correctly on configuring your server to register himself on the public list?
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  NAT type 3 PS3
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  Thanks :) I realise it's a problem that often comes up! Just in case anyone reads this post for help, basically pfSense defaults to an 'Automatic outbound NAT rule generation' for added security. This can cause problems with incoming connections (UPnP sorts out the out going). To turn this off select 'Manual Outbound NAT rule generation' then change the automatically generated rule to 'Static Port' = YES. Repeat for any other subnets if necessary.
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  Nagle algorithm and World of Warcraft
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  I tried that command, and yes, the delayed ACK is 0 by default it seems. Ah well, thank you to everyone who posted, learned a little bit 'bout my pfsense box, etc, etc.
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  UPnP on a Large LAN
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  From my experience, Xbox 360s will not respond to ping requests.  Very inconvenient!
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  Gaming over IPSEC?
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  I have once setup something like that for some friends of mine and it was working fine. There are some things that you have to consider: When playing over IPSEC you are in different subnets and broadcasts to announce a server in you LAN won't make it from one subnet to the other. You have to manually join the IP of the server to join a game. Built in "LAN-Browsers" won't work. Most games have an option to manually specify a server IP. The server should be hosted at the fastest connection. On asymetric connections the upstream is usually even more important than the downstream. The traffic of all clients will be concentrated on that link so better choose the one with the highest available bandwidth and not the one with the fastes machine. Besides that it should usually work (given that you allow the ports through IPSEC that the games need; maybe start with pass any rules for testing first).
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  Xbox Live issue
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  Hehe. Yeah macs kind of dont like it if you kill their active connections. Did you ever plug out an Access Point over which a mac is downloading at this moment? ;)
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  Games don't work anymore!
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  For anyone looking at this in the future: Looks like I figured it out (after 3 hours last night, and 4 hours tonight using the backup xml config files). We had the MAC address spoof/cloning turned on.  Looks like that isn't working properly since when I turned it off, everything works like a charm (no static ports needed). I'm fairly sure that MAC address cloning was not a problem with any of my previous routers, so maybe this is a pfSense bug. How I trouble shot this: After trying the suggestions that were supposed to work (ie: static ports), I gave up and nuked the router and reset it to factory.  I checked this worked.  It did.  I then downloaded the backup config xml file and compared it to my config that had problems. Slowly I tried adding things from my bad config to the simple config until I got a problem.  Eventually I found the change that caused problems was the MAC Address cloning/spoofing. Enjoy! Keywords: Gaming, Games, pfSense, MAC Address spoof spoofing cloning
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  PS/3 Question
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  Check this thread http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7295.msg41322.html#msg41322
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  Multiple Xbox 360s behind one public IP
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  I have been using te above setup for ~ 2 months now and it works great.  The only problem is that the 4 consoles are outside the firewall because when using virtual IPs they cannot connect to each other.  I have looked around the 1:1 / virtual IP forums and found that there is no fast and reliable way to have the 4 consoles behind pfsense without have connection problems.  Does anyone have a suggestion or am I stuck keeping these machines in front of PFsense? Xbox 1 - 192.168.1.200 –> 68.97.56.44 Xbox 2 - 192.168.1.201 --> 68.97.56.45 Xbox 3 - 192.168.1.202 --> 68.97.56.46 etc on xbox live the xboxes can't connect to one another using the virtual IP 68.97.56.x (even with NAT redirection on) This is the same for PCs I've tried using Virtual IP. Thank you.
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  UPNP fails when play
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  I wonder if some of these folks are running restrictive LAN rules.  IE: They edited the default allow all and started to clamp down on lan -> internet traffic?
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  Solved: LAN, OPT1 bridging / UPnP / DHCP relay questions
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  Some old, old games, require that the external IP is pingable…
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  Well I made that rule; it doesn't do the trick, changed the rule to any ICMP, still doesn't work… it seems any rules, portforwards I make, just do not want to work...
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  Xbox 360 Traffic Graphs as Host for Halo 3(listen server)
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  2 XBOX360'S HOOKED UP TO 1 INTERNET CONNECTION
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  read the gaming board.
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  How to block ports from using WAN2?
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  @hoba sir, thanks so much, i got it worked now.
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  Outgoing Nat port issues
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  That worked out for me, thanks for your help.
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  Miniupnpd installation.
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  @Nostradamus: Hi. Here : http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,6047.0.html I understand the fact that I shouldn't try to install the miniupnp package in a 1.2 branch release. But I didn't see any warning whatsoever that I should not perform a firmware upgrade when I have the miniupnp package installed because it will mess things up. You have to first manually remove the miniupnp package before upgrading the firmware Anyway, it's solved for me now, but I can imagine that in the future there will be a lot of users that upgrade to 1.2-RC2 or later and will hit the same problem.
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  Command and conquer 3 port forward ?
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  You created the alias BF2 that contains all your ports. The field where you can enter the port is red. You inserted 5900 in this field. But you have to write the name of the alias (in this case BF2). You also created an alias for your IP but inserted on the config page the IP directly. Just put there the name of your alias.
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  MS FlightSimulator 2004
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  @Perry: Don't know the game, but a quick google search came up with tcp/udp for the ports. http://www.airseatac.com/online/router_setup.htm Hi. Okay… i think i found the problem and this is really wared. I removed all NAT rules for this game and all firewall rules that was automatic made by Firewall: NAT: Port Forward. and i did a change in the Firewall: NAT: Outbound. I change to Manual Outbound NAT rule generation (Advanced Outbound NAT (AON)) and that made a automatic rule. WAN    192.168.100.0/24  *  *  *  *  *  NO Auto created rule for LAN i added this above that rule: WAN    192.168.100.102/32  23432  *  *  *  *  YES And i have enabled UPnP in pfSense too. The strange thing is... i can join every server now and with FsNavigator too without making any Firewall: NAT: Port Forward and Firewall: Rules.... It's this safe or not. I did also try first in the Outbound NAT rule: WAN    192.168.100.0/24  *  *  *  *  *  NO Auto created rule for LAN change it to: WAN    192.168.100.0/24  *  *  *  *  *  YES Auto created rule for LAN worked perfect too, but i was afraid i maybe made my pfSense unsecured . So is this an safe way to setup the firewall? Thanks
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  Http://portforward.com/cports.htm
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  Works for me
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  Warcraft 3
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  Search the forum for static-port or "static port".  Hint: it's a advanced outbound NAT feature.
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  Add new game to traffic shaper
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  i'll add that to the (GAME) and set the priority up =-D thanks! very good link BTW i play some of the others too (not nearly as much)
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  Supreme Commander , Static UDP Port problem *SOLVED*
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  Not sure about that. Maybe it will work as long as the external destination IPs are different. Try it and watch diagnostics>states and let us know  ;)
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  Some gaming and pfsense battle.net/starcraft
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  hmm.. got my tcp natting to work properly now.. any application that can test UDP ports ?