Author: Thomas McBurney
Date: 01:45:46 12/18/04
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If you are having problems connecting then please make sure you have your firewall configured to allow UDP packets on port 16043 (Chesswar). If you have a router then you will need to configure your router to forward UDP packets to your computer. To do this, connect to your router using your internet browser and look for a setting called 'Port Forwarding', 'Port Redirection' or something similar. You may find it under advanced settings. Configure port 16043 to forward packets to the IP address of the computer you are using. Of course you will need to find out what your IP address is first, probably something similar to '192.168.1.2'. Type 'ipconfig' from the command prompt to find out what ip address you have. The following are screen shots from two different routers which shows how the port forwarding has been set up... http://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/udptom.jpg http://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/udpolivier.jpg <img src="http://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/udptom.jpg"> <img src="http://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/udpolivier.jpg"> Cheers, Tom.
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