Port-Restricted Cone NAT Router

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Port-Restricted Cone NAT Router (Game Ranger)

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" Port-Restricted Cone NAT Router Your internet connection is behind a Port-Restricted Cone NAT Router that m ay prevent you from connecting to some players in peer-peer games.

You will still be able to connect with the majority of players, but not wit h those who have Symmetric NAT Routers (which are not that common, fortunat ely). One advantage of fixing this problem is that the "Preparing Connectio n" window will complete much faster.

If you do want to solve this problem, it will involve you configuring your router. Most routers are configured through a web page built into them. You may be able to reach yours here.

Many recent routers support a feature called Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) . This feature will allow GameRanger to do most of the configuration requir ed. You will need to enable it to allow GameRanger to make changes. Not all routers support UPnP correctly, however, so that may not be enough.

The alternative is to manually configure your router to do port-forwarding for UDP port 16000. Ask your ISP (Internet Service Provider) or refer to yo ur router's instruction manual for assistance here.

Port-forwarding tells the router to send the game communication data to you r computer. The port-forwarding configuration page will ask you for a publi c port and a private port. Set both of those to 16000. In some cases, inste ad of asking for a public port, it will ask for a port range (eg. Start Por t, End Port). Set the Start and End to 16000. It will also ask you for the IP address of your computer that the data should be sent to. It may call th is the LAN IP, Local IP, or Private IP. This should be set to 84.25.113.203 . If it asks you for the protocol or type, set it to UDP.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to offer step-by-step instructions here a s every router is different.

If you are at work on a company network or at a university, you may not be able to fix the problem yourself. Instead you may have to ask the network a dministrator to how to port-forward UDP port 16000 to your computer. "

What the f*ck is this ? Carrier grade NAT ?!?!

Has game ranger gone crazy ?! If not how can it detect this ?!

Ok ziggo might block certain ports like netbios ports just for security rea sons....

or SQL slammer to block SQL worms...

But either than that I dont know about this...

Just tried to host a company of heroes games but was not showing up in list , this is a bit suspicious, the link to my cable modem menu was interesting but nope not working... 84.25.112.1

This is just default ip gateway on my pc/host configuration.

Is Game Ranger detecting a miss-configured cable modem/router ? Or just de tecting some block ports by ziggo ?!?

Or has lost game ranger it's mind ? ;)

Bye, Skybuck.

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skybuck2000
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Please dont give me this 192.168.x.x shit as a reply here is some ipconfig material for you to chew on:

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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Skybuck>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : DREAMPC2006 Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : dynamic.ziggo.nl

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 9:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : dynamic.ziggo.nl Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller #3 Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-01-6C-C8-68-F7 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::581b:c1a:e679:57e3%30(Preferred) IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 84.25.113.203(Preferred) Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.254.0 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, 12 October 2018 19:23:46 Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, 19 October 2018 19:53:46 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 84.25.112.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.255.235.1 DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 754975084 DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-16-50-8E-63-00-25-22-A1-37-21

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 84.116.46.22 84.116.46.23 NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

Ethernet adapter Tunngle:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : TAP-Win32 Adapter V9 (Tunngle) Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-FF-88-8C-04-24 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 8:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ether net Controller #3 Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-01-6C-C8-68-F6 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 19:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter isatap.{888C0424-09D9-48F6-84EB-EDBE6297AB66}:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Reusable Microsoft 6To4 Adapter:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft 6to4 Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter isatap.dynamic.ziggo.nl:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #3 Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 17:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft 6to4 Adapter #2 Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

C:\Users\Skybuck>

This looks a little bit interesting:

DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.255.235.1 DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 754975084 DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-16-50-8E-63-00-25-22-A1-37-21

Guess not though...

Maybe my cable modem at 10.255.x.x ?

Guessing not... but who knows ;)

Might scan that range later.

Bye, Skybuck.

Reply to
skybuck2000

Your PC appears to be connected directly to the cable modem without a router in between. The cable modem is acting just as a modem and is not additionally configured as a router. This means that it is passing data directly to the default gateway without using NAT.

The default gateway is a router somewhere in the Ziggo network. It can be pinged from the internet and has BGP and LDP ports open. These protocols are used for automatic configuration of routers in large networks.

You are on a subnet of 512 addresses, some of which will be used by people who live near to you and are on the same cable segment. Your PC appears to be alive, but all ports are filtered.

This is the server that allocates your ip address from within the Ziggo network

These obvously work fine or you would be unable to access the internet.

Definitely not.

Your setup is unusual as most people don't have their PC directly connected to a cable modem without a router in between. It is potentially vulnerable to unwanted access from the internet. The Windows firewall is probably the thing that is blocking external access (and protecting you from being taken over by the bad guys). Especially as you have now published a lot more detail about your connection than most people would consider to be wise.

So, did you really intend to be set up like this? If so, you need to open port 16000 to incoming UDP traffic in the Windows firewall.

If not, look up the manual for your cable modem to find out what its LAN address is and reconfigure it to router mode. Then set up port forwarding to the address that it gives your PC which really will be something like 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x.

John

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jrwalliker

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