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SMC Router and hosting TRIBES 1, please help!!!
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Posted by: fatass
Can anyone here help me?! I can't host TRIBES with my SMC Router!
Thanks in advance.
Posted by: NegotiatorSmith
What model SMC router do you have?
Have you attempted to configure your router for Tribes hosting yet?
The thing you have to is very simple: forward whatever port(s) the game uses to your computer's internal IP address. I believe that SMC's name for port forwarding is "Virtual Servers".
Posted by: fatass
SMC7004ABR Barricade.
As far as I can tell TRIBES only uses PORT 28001. I put port forwarding of that port to my pc on the LAN. Now I can see it on the LAN via another PC on the LAN, but WAN users cannot see it.
I even tried putting it in the DMZ and nothing. I wonder if portforwarding overrides the DMZ or interferes somehow.
Posted by: NegotiatorSmith
When it comes to port forwarding, the one thing that I see trips up people the most is the IP address that they're forwarding ports to. What IP address did you put in the DMZ and where did you get that IP address from? I don't mean to make you feel dumb, but we need to make sure that you're putting in the correct IP address.
If you put the correct IP address in the DMZ and you still can't host, something else is blocking the port(s) that the game is listening on. If you're using Windows XP, disable the built-in XP firewall in your connection properties. If you have a software firewall like ZoneAlarm installed, make sure it's allowing the game to listen for incoming connections. Try temporarily disabling the firewall and see if you can host.
Umm... the DMZ would override the port forwarding, not the other way around. The DMZ forwards ALL ports to a single IP address, and using port forwarding along with the DMZ would be redundant.
Posted by: fatass
Yeah, I thought so on the DMZ thing.
I am running win2k.
I did an ipconfig to get the IP(on the PC in question) to port forward to, and I have disabled the firewall in the router. BTW, I'm using DHCP and a cable modem.
Anything in win2k that could be screwing it up?
And thank you for your help! 
Posted by: NegotiatorSmith
No, I'm not aware of anything in Windows 2000 that might be blocking ports that isn't third-party software.
Okay, it sounds like you know how to find out your internal IP address... almost everyone I've talked to about port forwarding doesn't know how. :/
If you don't have a software firewall, you're using your router's DMZ and you still can't host, there are two other possibilities - your router is defective and is blocking the port for some reason, or your ISP is blocking the port inbound.
Actually, there's another possibility... I don't know of any cable modems that do this, but I know that a lot of DSL modems act as routers right out of the box. If you connect directly to your cable modem and you're assigned an IP address that falls in one of these ranges...
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
...your cable modem acts as a router or your ISP has you behind one. If your ISP has you behind one, you won't be able to host unless you can somehow convince them to forward Tribes incoming traffic to your computer.
Posted by: fatass
Guess it's new router time. I tried everything and it'll work without the router. POS SMC crap!
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