Age of Empires 2 and Network play

[jays]

Good afternoon,
I've just installed pfSense and it works very well for surfing. I'd like to get it working for hosting a game over the internet as well.

My setup:
WAN - DHCP - Cable modem
LAN - Static IP's (10.0.0.x)

What happens:
Local only Network games work fine.

I've added the port forwards to allow incoming connections.

When a friend connects to the game over the Internet it works fine.
When I try to join neither of us can see each other but the server can see both of us.

I tried net reflection on and off with no visible difference.

Do I need to create our own personal vpn ?

Thanks

[mpo101]

I think creating VPN should solve your problem.

[bviper47]

Make sure UPnP is turned off on both ends. I've never been able to get an AOE II game to work correctly when having it enabled.