[cod] What ports do I need opened in my firewall for CoD?

[Booker Apelin]

Thanks, that actually did the trick!  Here's what I did and some other
little tips for anyone else that has a Fedora core 1 install with firewall
settings set for high.

 

The firewall settings for Fedora core 1 (RedHat 9) only block on incoming
packets (INPUT chain and also FORWARD chain) and there are no blocks on
outgoing packets (OUTPUT Chains).  See the man page iptables for further
explanation.  On the INPUT and FORWARD chain is a RH-Firewall-1-INPUT Chain
which I had to edit to open the ports.

 

To add an opening for port 28960 type this command (as root, or if you have
sudo prefix this command with sudo):

 

/sbin/iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT 1  -p udp --dport 28960 -j ACCEPT

 

If you run multiple servers on different ports you need to run the above
command with the other ports modifying the -dport XXXXX.

 

Lastly, you need to add this to the startup iptables file so that if your
server reboots or crashes, the ports will be open when the server comes back
up.  The file you need to edit is in /etc/sysconfig/iptables.  Do a `cat
/etc/sysconfig/iptables`  then do a `/sbin/iptables-save`. The output of
iptables-save shows you what currently is on the firewall.  There will be a
line for your port 28960.  You need to copy this line and add it to
/etc/sysconfig/iptables.  You also need to add it in the same order as you
see it in iptables-save.

 

Since the firewall doesn't block anything going out, I didn't have to open
any holes for 20500 and 20510 which others have indicated are for cd-key
authentication and browser listing (I assume this is the master server list
that people download in the multiplayer game to see what servers are
available on the net.).

 

Mahalo,

Mr.DaFoose  

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Garcia, Ismael [mailto:IGarcia at activision.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 12:58 PM
To: 'cod at icculus.org'
Subject: RE: [cod] What ports do I need opened in my firewall for CoD?

 

make sure your firewall software is set to allow UDP packets on port 28960.
Call of Duty(tm) uses this port for connection, message of the day, server
browsing, and so forth.

IG 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Booker Apelin [mailto:booker at lava.net] 
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 2:40 PM 
To: cod at icculus.org 
Subject: [cod] What ports do I need opened in my firewall for CoD? 

I just installed fedora core 1 with it's firewall settings set to high. 
(basically redhat 9) 

I have a server running, and when I have the firewall off on redhat, I can 
connect to the server, so I know the server is working.  So I've turned it 
back to high. 

Can anyone tell me what port ranges to open up?  If they have to be UDP or 
it doesn't matter?  I want to be able for gamespy to see my servers so it 
comes up on their master list and for people to connect to them. 

I can try and figure out how to open up the ports on my box but I need the 
port ranges.  Unless someone already has done and is willing to hook me up 
with that info :). 

Mahalo, 
Mr.DaFoose 

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