Re: iptables and games

It's counter strike and I had an older version working through ipchains.
Back then I had to switch between blocking everything when I wasn't
playing and allowing everything when I wanted to play. When I switched
to an OpenBSD firewall it just worked. Stateful packet filtering in
OpenBSD worked great. I don't know why it's not working in Linux.

They may have made changes to the game that require a direct connection
of some kind. Looks like I have to do more searching.

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 10:48 -0900, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, damien hull wrote:
>
> > I still can't play games through my firewall. I can surf the web etc...
> > but no game play. Here's my new configuration.
>
> If the normal Internet traffic is now working fine you're probably dealing
> with a game protocol that relies on an inbound connection (like FTP in active
> mode) which would require a helper module. What game are you trying to play
> through the firewall? Any info on the protocol?
>
> --Arthur Corliss
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