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[Foy13]

I have a Neverwinter Nights server on my network. It worked fine, showing up on the Gamespy list, with my old router but as soon as I installed the DIR-655 it stopped. The game simply will not show up on the Gamespy list.

I'm currently port-forwarding UDP ports 5120-5300, 6500, 6667, 27900, 28900. That's all I had to do on my old router and it worked fine.

Players CAN connect to the game directly using my IP address so I know the port-forwarding for 5121 is working but I noticed this morning that the log shows a couple of blocked outgoing packets (I didn't see a port specified) from that computer. I'm running a virus scan on that computer but I don't expect to find anything.

The computer in question has a static IP address if that matters.

I guess the question is, does the DIR-655 block some outgoing ports regardless of port-forwarding rules entered? If not can anyone help me out? I'm really to the point of buying a new router.

[Cobra]

Why don't you just run it in the DMZ?

If it is just a game server and you do not use it for anything else it can not get a virus.

[Foy13]

I thought putting a computer in the DMZ was equivalent to connecting it directly on the internet and thus become subject to attacks. That doesn't sound like something I'd want to do outside of a short test.

[Cobra]

I have been running game servers in DMZ for about 5 years now and never been attacked or had a virus.
But that machine is not used for anything except the game server and it does have the windows firewall (win 7) so I know all ports are closed except the ones the server needs opened.

[Foy13]

Ok, I'll load a software firewall and see if I can make that work.

I still don't like it considering how easy it was with the old router.

[Cobra]

Well another thing to try is allow ping through router.

[Foy13]

If I do the DMZ thing, what is the ramification of that being on the LAN with my other 3 PC's in the house? Will they all need software firewalls? Will we need to stop using shared printers and drives?

[Cobra]

The only PC affected is the IP address of that machine you enter into DMZ.
All others are still protected by the routers firewall.

[Foy13]

Fixed my problem by switching to a Linksys. Plug-and-play, worked from the start. Thanks anyway.

[wzd]

Argh.... I have the same problem.   If another router is the solution, I am staying away from D-link in the future.   Hopefully there is a solution other than DMZ for this? 

I open exactly the same ports on my old router and this new one, and the old one works. 

Also, when I have the port forward rule enabled, I can not even login to gamespy via NWN for a client session (versus the server session I am trying to get to work).