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Hi all,

Not sure if this is the right forum, but I'm asking it anyway, because related forums are mostly dead.

I am running an Urban Terror game host on a Windoze client behind my ClearOS box, so I port forwarded the required ports to the game host.
I planned on also running a True Combat: Elite host, but the problem is that it shares port 27960.
I think the reason is that they are both games that derive from a Quake engine and my question is ... how can I solve this ... ?!?

I would additionally like to ask how to hosts these games on a ClearOS gateway or standalone box, but I am unaware how to achieve that, because the Linux CLI is still a great mystery to me so ... :blush:
Can someone please point me in the right direction, besides telling me to ask this on the specific game forums, because they only deal with other distros & Linux clients that, unlike ClearOS have a desktop ... ?!?

Greetings,

John

Ps. I am able to connect to both game servers locally, but TC:E is nowhere to be found on the external gaming lists ... not even when I close the UrT host down.
Saturday, July 02 2011, 01:31 PM
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    John
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    Sunday, July 03 2011, 02:23 PM - #Permalink
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    Hi Kevin,

    Thanks for your advice.
    I have tried to change the TC:E game port to 27962 (randomly chosen) in the .cfg file with whom I start it and port-forwarding the same port, but for my Qtracker browser (local & remote) the game did not show up in the list when also running an UrT host.
    At the moment, the only way I got TC:E to show up locally (regardless on what port), is when I do not run the UrT host, but remote the TC:E host, still didn't show up ... unlike the other 3 game hosts that I run.

    This Pound and reverse proxy, could be a solution, but I would have to investigate in it and with my current knowledge of the Linux CLI, I doubt I will make any progress, if thats what is required ... :blush:

    Please advice,

    John
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    Kevin Dika
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    Saturday, July 02 2011, 10:52 PM - #Permalink
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    If it's a Linux based game server, then you should be able to modify the ports. I know when I did a Left4Dead server you can run multi-servers but using different ports. You just had to specific that during the initial load.

    So I would have game server on port 1234 then games server 2 on port 1235.

    I'm not sure about the game(s) it self, but you might be able to open a port, then port forward it to the game server and port. So in the game you specify port 1235 but forward it to 1234. Not sure if that will work either.

    Otherwise, you could try Pound. I've been waiting to do something with it, but haven't had the time.

    Pound works like this;

    If I open port 443, but run a website called my.site.com but that is running a different server behind ClearOS, and then running another website like other.site.com on ClearOS both require port 443, this program allows you to connect based on the website. Like a reverse proxy, or maybe that's what it is.

    But will require you to use the CLI... so not sure if that will help.
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