[Thain Esh Kelch]

Since upgrading to Leopard, I haven't been able to host games. Could anyone explain to me how the firewall works, just for Warcraft?

I've just added War3 and The Frozen Throne to the list in Systempreferences, but that doesnt seem to work.. I don't believe my router has any ports closed at all.

[QuantaCat]

does joining work? (that isn't an answer to your question, but I'm having a lan party with macs & pcs, and I was wondering if there were any leopard problems..)


Also, there is a list on gameranger.com about ports and such. Although I'm quite sure Warcraft3 isnt on there.. (also, firewalls or routers mostly have all ports closed, unless you tell it to open specific, or all)

[Thain Esh Kelch]

Yeah, joining works fine.

I know about what ports that are supposed to be open, but I can't for the love of god figure out how to add them in Leopard. Tiger was pretty easy...

[macdude22]

For now it seems you have to disable the 10.5 firewall to run the blizzard games. The firewall corrupts Starcraft and may corrupt others as well. It does some weird hashing to verify the application which appends something to the app and causes blizzards internal checks to fail. I reinstalled starcraft 3 times before I figured out what was going on.

It's probably not a router problem, War III supports NAT.

QuantaCat, on February 18th 2008, 02:00 AM, said:

does joining work? (that isn't an answer to your question, but I'm having a lan party with macs & pcs, and I was wondering if there were any leopard problems..)
Also, there is a list on gameranger.com about ports and such. Although I'm quite sure Warcraft3 isnt on there.. (also, firewalls or routers mostly have all ports closed, unless you tell it to open specific, or all)

There are no ports to add, 10.5 uses some weird application level blocking. You're supposed to put apps in your trusted list then the OS will open whatever ports the application needs and the OS checks a hash of the app to make sure it hasn't been modified. Sounds good in theory (well not to me, but maybe i'm just an old school networking boy). At any rate it's terrible in practice and at this point I've just made sure that my router is properly configured and disabled the 10.5 firewall.

[teflon]

hopefully this could help.

aside from that the 10.5 firewall works on a programme by programme basis and that the list should just say the programme and then that it allows incoming connections...

[Thain Esh Kelch]

Sorry, that link is way too technical for me.. O_o

Guess I'll have to write Blizzard to hear what they say...