I am in desperate need of help. For the life of me, my friend and I cannot get a game of MP Hearts of Iron 2 going! Please, anyone who can help me I would be eternally thankful. Here is all the information as to what I have attempted and such:
First off let me state that my friend and I have been able to play HoI2, but not Doomsday in the past without any apparent problems. The problem only seems to be, from what we can remember, when we switched to playing Doomsday. We don't have Armageddon.
With that said, the current situation as that no matter what we do... who hosts... or what kind of voodoo we attempt, both of us when attempting to join a game receive a "Cannot find host at XX.XX.XX.XX IP. Blah Blah." message. So following the many instructions of this particular thread along with other hints and tips on port forwarding in general from around the net, I have attempted to do so. But still to no avail. Perhaps someone could explain to me a little more in case I am missing something.
I have a D Link DI 524 wireless router that is plugged into the cable modem.
If you look at HKslan's photos on the previous page
here you will see what I see when I go to advanced -> applications.
From the following posts responding to his, the way I understand it is he had it backward. The way it should be set up is Trigger Port is just 2300 and Public Ports should have the ranges of 2300-2400,28800-29000,47400-47700? Or is that wrong?
The thing is though, in my searching on the official DLink website, they have a guide for forwarding ports for a handful of games. The way they show it is going into the Firewall menu and doing this:
I have a HoI2a, b and c with the Port Ranges of 2300-2400, 28800-29000 and 47400-47700 respectively. The guide suggests this method for the games that have ranges of ports. For games that also require just a single port, the say to go into the Advanced menu and use Virtual Server. I've done this and it looks like:
and I also have an a,b and c version but it seems like its just 1 port, so I just have the first (2300, 28800 and 47400 as you can see). The Private IP is the computers IP. Or should I be using the Gateway IP which is just x.y.z.1 instead of 100?
Is there anything else I am missing with the router? It does have a DMZ.
The other thing we tried was Himachi. But again with no luck.
Please please help! I will provide any more info you need. All I want to do is play some HoI with my bud.