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First off, if you can successfully accept WAN connections (you said your friend can play as long as he knows the IP address) then technically you should be fine. Just try going to favorites, and adding your WAN IP Address w/port and see if it refreshes.
You might want to look into a dynamic IP service. Visit no-ip.com and download their client, it's free. Instead of telling your friends your IP address, they will just type something like "myserver.servegame.com" etc...
If you could tell us who your ISP is, that could help possibly. Some ISPs simply might block 27015 outgoing.
Finally, make SURE you understand completely what's going on network wise. You can open as many ports as you'd like, but nothing will happen until your router is specifically told to forward that data to your server. You should not need to mess with DMZ or any of that crap.
Good luck
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04-01-2005, 09:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-01-2005, 09:02 PM by cryotek.)
Ok, i was going to leave this, but then some ideas popped into my head that we could try.
Firstly, you use windows as a server, so, what happens if you try and run a direct connect and looking the server up on gametiger. By direct connect, i mean, plug your cable/DSL modem into the server, not a router. look your ip up on gametiger, if you still get bad results, then its one fo 2 things, your ISP (internet service provider) is filtering some of those ports. Not much you can do about that. The other thing that could be is, are you running softwalls? (software firewalls such as mcafee, zonealarm, norton, panda, windows firewall, etc.) if you are, try opening those ports up as well.
If you have no problems, i would look at server.counter-strike.net forums, there is an extensive post about certain routers that should help you. And just a little FYI, WAN stands for Wide Area Network. Your WAN IP is your public IP address.
EDIT: rereading your last post, outgoing AND incoming would be good.
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Sounds like you're getting there. When you're looking at your router settings, all you want to look for is virtual servers. This is how it works for a typical residential (cable) connection:
Pretend you have two computers on your network:
Computer A - Your computer
Computer B - Your server
Let's also pretend that your network gateway address is 192.168.0.1. I'll also assume that you have one unique IP address that both computers on your network share when accessing the internet.
So locally, your two computers might have the following addresses...
Computer A - 192.168.0.100
Computer B - 192.168.0.101
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Those are local addresses that your router issues to your computers in order to "direct" the incoming internet data, among other things.
Together Computer A and B will both SEND and RECEIVE from the internet or WAN (same thing) using the same IP address. The WAN IP address might look something like 69.24.117.69. This is the IP Address that is issued by your internet service provider or ISP. Your ISP might be America Online, Comcast, or Time Warner.
This is where virtual servers comes into play. If you are running a counter-strike server on Computer B (192.168.0.101), you will want to make sure that you have a virtual server enabled for private IP 192.168.0.101 (or whatever your server's local IP address is) and associate it with port 27015 for both TCP and UDP protocols.
Try all that first, then figure out if you have Windows Firewall running. If you have Service Pack 2 installed for Windows XP on your server, it will definetly prevent you unless specified.
Good luck
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04-02-2005, 02:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-02-2005, 04:45 AM by slowdeath_server.)
THX for this explain. This realy helped me.
But one more question...what is DHCP which I have to disable?
And... yes I have Service Pack 2 installed but I turned off the Windows Firewall, because I use Norten2005 where srcds is permitted to have acess to the internet.
CIAO Michi
P.S.: I can not add all ports in Virtual Server, because they are too many and so I use Special Application too. Where I forward via triggerport 27015 and the rest of the ports!
thx!!! 
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