Networked Home PC's hosting same game

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 07/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 10:51:38 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>I am a CCNA, and consider myself fairly knowledgable on
>PC's, but I have not programmed any directplay, so I am
>stumped on this problem. I have multiple PC's in my
>house behind a router, 1 for each of my children. They
>would all like to be able to host multiple player online
>games. Let's take Age of Mythology, for example. Each
>child would like to host a game for his/her friends to
>join.
>I forward ports, 6073, and 2300-2400 to the machine
>running the game. This works perfectly for that machine,
>but then they want to host from a different machine, I
>have to change the port forwarding to that machine. Does
>anyone have any clever ideas of how to do this
>automatically?
>.
>

Sorry but I need help in this myself. I cant even get a
game to host on any computer. Can I only do it on a host
machine or can I host from a client. I just got my first
router yesterday and cant figure out how to do the ports
right. I opened them all but I think I made a mistake
somewhere. Its a Linksys and if you can tell me how to
open the ports and if that may not be enough I could
really use the help. And I made a static IP address.

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