Very Computer

I recently moved my firewall from linux to OpenBSD.  While the
experience has been most enjoyable so far I have run into a problem.

For my free time I do enjoy a game of starcraft,  and have been unable
to successfully connect to battle.net games with openbsd as the
firewall.

If I can connect,  the lag tends to be horrible,  and I believe I am
at fault.

Does anyone have any experience with starcraft battle.net games
through an openbsd firewall?  Do I need to redirect ports?

On the other hand, I don't believe that that box does any kind of
firewalling, merely pure NAT.

Now I was hopeing that someone would be able to point me in the right
direction based on previous experience. If not previous experience, perhaps
try and find out where the bottleneck lies.

Cheers,

Steve

I had some problems to playing through my OpenBSD firewall. Even thou I
don't play through Zone.com I opened the ports needed to play there. It
works fine for some games, though I have never tried Starcraft.
Perhaps opening these ports will help you?
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q159/0/31.ASP?LN=EN-...
n&FR=0&qry=firewall&rnk=21&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=MSALL

I do not know if Battle.net need similar ports opened.

Best regards,

Frode

Quote:> A friend of mine plays it frequently through his linksys "share yer cable
> modem" box thing and has no such issues.

> On the other hand, I don't believe that that box does any kind of
> firewalling, merely pure NAT.

> Now I was hopeing that someone would be able to point me in the right
> direction based on previous experience. If not previous experience,
perhaps
> try and find out where the bottleneck lies.

> Cheers,

> Steve