Firewalls

[goldenarm007]

anyone know what ports civ4 uses sot hat i can open up the port for direct ip games?

[CanuckSoldier]

http://civ4players.proboards44.com/index.cgi?board=tsf&action=display&thread=1130992770

Yes look here.

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[WhiteBandit]

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Ok I've got a little more clarification on ports, CIV(while playing) only uses port 2056(which is configurable in the ini). But the lobby is "powered by Gamespy" so GS uses a few more ports to take care of all the functions in the lobby, it's basically a highly modified IRC system.

http://www.gamespyarcade.com/support/firewalls.shtml

If you are behind a firewall/proxy and are able to change its settings, Arcade needs the following TCP ports open in order to function:
6667 (IRC)
3783 (Voice Chat Port)
27900 (Master Server UDP Heartbeat)
28900 (Master Server List Request)
29900 (GP Connection Manager)
29901 (GP Search Manager)
13139 (Custom UDP Pings)
6515 (Dplay UDP)
6500 (Query Port)


The only one I'm still waiting for clarification on is the Voice chat port, we don't have voice chat in the lobby but that doesn't mean GS isn't wanting to open it.