Router / Firewall Configuration

[cal1s]

For those of you having problems with your Router or Firewall and cannot enjoy NWN2 online. Here might be a little help on how to configure your hardware.

All the ports were posted in the readme, and there are a lot of them.
They are as follows:

5. GameSpy Firewall Ports
When you play on a system that is behind a firewall or proxy, certain ports may need to be opened to connect to multiplayer games.
Ports 3658, 3659, 6500 and 27900 may need to be opened so the GameSpy servers can see the game.

Please consult your network administrator or your router manufacturer for information on how to set up these ports.
You should also install the latest firmware available for your router from the manufacturer

6. Opening Ports to Play Behind a Firewall
The following ports may need to be opened for GameSpy servers to see the game: 3658, 3659, 3660, 6500, 27900, 28910
GameSpy Arcade may also need the following TCP ports open in order to function properly:
- 6667 (IRC)
- 3783 (Voice Chat Port)
- 27900 (Master Server UDP Heartbeat)
- 28900 (Master Server List Request)
- 29900 (GP Connection Manager)
- 29901 (GP Search Manager)
- 13139 (Custom UDP Pings)
- 6515 (Dplay UDP)
- 6500 (Query Port)

You will also need to open the server port (5121 by default) and the following port for the game stats to be updated correctly: 29920 (Gamestats Server)"

[Tom_Tower]

Me and my brothres struggeled a lot trying to open ports to play online. It works as long as I'm seting up the server - which is not exactly what we want - my machine is a little outdated.
We tried VPN using Hamatchi (http://www.hamachi.cc/) and it worked really good. You don't need to forward any router ports (we deactivated our firewalls). Just open a multiplayer game. Deactivate "post to the internet". Your fellows join the game by choosing "LAN connection". Nevertheless the game crashed form time to time. Did anyone encounter the same problems using Hamatchi ?