[cod] firewall then cod server

[tog at teamltk.com]

if your firewall does inbound port address translation (PAT) where you tell your firewall to 
forward port 28960 to machine 192.168.1.5 (or similar internal address) , and you only have a 
single ip address for your router / firewall, then the firewall will do NAT (network address 
translation) that tells the 'real world' what your public address is.  This is how something 
like a Linksys, D-Link, DDWRT etc would work...

It would be different if you had multiple 'real world' ip addresses and forwarded an address 
with all ports (NAT) to your internal server.  In this case, you would want to do a form of 
reverse NAT (SNAT or Source Network Address Translation) in the firewall..

I can go more in depth if you care...

TOG




Dnk wrote:
> Ah, so the cod master servers don't use the ip specified on the command 
> line when starting the cod server? Do they do some sort of test to see 
> what the public ip (from the firewall) is?
> 
> Or do you mean the firewall needs to have some sort of outbound rule to 
> translate the address?
> 
> Dustin Krysak
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 15-Dec-08, at 6:38 PM, "Robert Mount" <rmount at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> If your firewall is performing NAT or PAT, it will translate all the
>> addresses automatically.  So you want to specify the internal
>> (non-public) IP on the command line and let the firewall do the
>> translation.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Rob
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:59 PM, dnk <d.k.emaillists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Just curious....
>>>
>>> I want to move one of my cod servers behind a firewall that is on a 
>>> separate
>>> machine. Now when starting the server, you obviously ned to use the 
>>> IP that
>>> is on the server itself....
>>>
>>> How would one go about having that cod server report the public IP to 
>>> the
>>> master servers, so that those in front of the firewall can connect?
>>>
>>> d
>>>
>>>
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