How to host a simple server

[watch-your-fire]

Howdy, I'm a bit new to this game and I was hoping to learn some skills by playing against a friend. He set up a private dogfight server but when I went to join my game would just freeze on the server select screen. I think it might have something to do with the way my game is installed, I have mine on my D drive but he has his on C, so maybe the game is looking for files in the wrong directory? How would I go about fixing this?

 

To be clear, we just want some simple fun, just me and him with unlimited respawns and all the planes we own on a small empty map.

[DD_FT-]

Sounds like your friend needs to check his router/firewall settings, and allow port forwarding:

 

Port 28000 for protocols TCP and UDP

Port 28100 for protocol TCP

 

The person that hosts a mission needs to open these ports up so people can join in the fun...

 

It would not be related to where your game is installed at all...

 

Good Luck!

 

[watch-your-fire]

40 minutes ago, DD_FT- said:

Sounds like your friend needs to check his router/firewall settings, and allow port forwarding:

 

Port 28000 for protocols TCP and UDP

Port 28100 for protocol TCP

 

The person that hosts a mission needs to open these ports up so people can join in the fun...

 

It would not be related to where your game is installed at all...

 

Good Luck!

 

Thanks you!

[Charlo-VRde]

( @JediMaster let's see if watch-your-fire gets this to work)

[JediMaster]

That only works if you have a router with a public IP you can touch.

 

In my case, my ISP has NAT enabled on my cable modem and I have no control or visibility. So nothing I do is working.

[JediMaster]

Ok...I went searching the net and found out how to get into my cable modem. So I logged in and found I had port fwding rules in there from YEARS ago that I had forgotten about.

 

I had almost no memory of doing them, but I know they were me because one had the name "DCS" and the other "ROF".

 

ROF uses the same ports as Il-2 (no coincidence there) but my PC's IP had changed over the years from 192.168.0.3 to .4 (or vice versa, I forget which).

 

So I altered the rules to use my PC's new IP and voila! my friend can now connect.

 

I know DCS didn't require those rules anymore, I've had people connect to me without issue in the last few months, but apparently Il2/ROF still does.