3.4 Setting Up a Virtual Server
1 Find out which ports need to be opened for gaming.
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www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/app_port_list.htm
If you have found your games port settings, we recommend that you print them out, write them down now, or keep the game manual handy.
Different games require different numbers of ports to be open. This can be a single port, or it can be a hundred ports or more.
Each required port needs to be set individually, so the more ports that your game requires, the more time it will take to do the configuration. Some games even use “dynamic” ports, meaning that the ports used by the game are constantly changing, so you can’t set the ports.
There is a setting that opens all your ports for gaming, called a DMZ. If you can’t find the port settings in your game manual or on the web site shown above, or if you have to open more than 20 ports (which is the maximum allowed by the V3), or if your game documentation says that the game uses dynamic ports, or if you don’t want to spend the time to open multiple ports, refer to the DMZ instructions on page 44.
Warning!
Every time you open an additional port, it decreases the effectiveness of your firewall, so the less ports you open the better.
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