opening port for a game server

i've only just started gettin into linux recently.

I'm using gentoox on my xbox with KDE.

I've created a q3server on it which seems to be working fine. I can ping the xbox but i cant see the q3server.

I'm guessing theres some kind of firewall on there or maybe something is blocking the port 27960.

Could any body help with this?

If you need anymore info on the problem i'l do my best to find out more details but plz remember i've only started using linux recently.

should this be in the networking thread?

I figured newbie thread was more suitable??

no one can help??

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oops sorry about that

*embarrassed*

No worries, just here to help out

I wish I could help out with the question, but I don't know jack about a q3server. If you can ping it though I don't know what the problem would be. See if you can run netstat on the server and post up what you get

Good Luck!

Cool

Is it not a case of your firewall blocking access to the port 27960? If so may I recommend the following link for an quick simple firewall script http://kreiger.linuxgods.com/kiki/?K...firewall-tools From within here you can open up the port.

I had a similar problem with half-life until I opened the port.

Cheers

John

thanx for your help

That stuff looks definately out of my league.

I was hopeing for something simple that can be typed in a terminal or something or somewhere that can be clicked.

i keep hearing about port forwarding? does that mean anything to anybody?

Sure does, but you shouldn't have to worry about it unless you are behind a router of some sort?

Gentoo doesn't come with anything you don't want, so unless you put iptables on there (check with emerge -p iptables) then you likely don't have a firewall. If you did, fire up your favorite FireWall editor (maybe firestarter?) and let down your guard on the ports in question.

Cool