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[AP0ll0UK]

I'm looking at setting up my xbox so that it can access shares on my PC for music and possibly Windows Media Center.

However, my xbox has a Hitachi drive running 1.5 and in the interest of avoiding a ban I would like to connect my xbox to one of the nics on my PC [PC has two nics], then bridge the connection and restrict the traffic for the xbox on the PC [Windows 7] and setup the shares on the PC for the xbox.

The question is, is it possible to do this and restrict the traffic and keep it internal to prevent the xbox from connecting to xbox live?

Has anyone else attempted this?

[Toddler]

Seems a hell of a lot easier just to block your 360 at your router so it can't communicate with the outside world.  You can usually block specific MAC addresses that way.

[Shin555]

Hi,

I do not know if my console is banned as of yet, as i never updated my Xbox when promoted last month. Thus have not signed into Live.

I never play games via Xbox Live, and i am not a Gold Member, but i do like to play over System Link with my Brother. As well as stream Music and other media over the Network

The 360's are far away from each other and are wired through the router, so they are not directly connected. Which also means that as soon as i put the Ethernet cable in it will try to sign into live or at least in some way communicate with it.

So how would i make the Consoles LAN Only? Not even sending a packet to Xbox Live?

I have a Belkin N1 Vision router, i can't disable UPNP as both PS3's use that and the firewall on the Router does not let you open multiple ports to seperate IP addresses, so UPNP has to be on.

What would be the best way to go about things? As i still want to be able to install games onto the Hard Drive, and don't want to buy another 360 til mine dies, so connecting to Live and possibly being banned wouldn't be good for me despite me having no need for Xbox live (apart from Game updates/patches).


Thanks.

[d4rk5ky]

My box is still connected to my network to stream movies from my pc, but i have blocked all xbox live access. The 2 things you should do to make sure your box doesn't accidentally connect to XBL.

1) Go into the system settings and then family settings and then go into console controls and then xbox live access. Select "blocked" then at which point it will ask you to enter a passcode and a password reminder question/answer. Save all that and hit done.

2) If you're using a router and know your way around it, go into the settings and block ports 3074 (TCP and UDP) and port 88 (UDP). These are the ports that XBL uses to connect.

Then your done, your box shouldn't connect to XBL now and you should still have access to your shares (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Cheers.

This post has been edited by d4rk5ky: Nov 11 2009, 06:55 AM

[impimpin206]

What you need to do is set a static IP, but leave your gateway blank. DNS too. If you leave the gateway blank youll be on your local network but no internet access

[brazen]

I have been keeping my 360 off of live for a while now by manually setting the DNS to 0.0.0.0 It will completely keep your box off the internet while still having normal local LAN support.

My question is: I want to use Xlink Kia for System Link over the internet, If I just change the ports as described above will I be able to use Xlink Kia without logging into live?

Thanks

[tommyam]

QUOTE(tommyam @ Nov 9 2009, 10:21 AM)

I have some observations I would like to share, I currently have 1 stock and 1 unbanned, has been disconnected since the start of all this but could very well be a banned box

I started testing on the stock xbox some of the suggested settings to maintain lan streaming but disabling live connectivity and here are some of the results

I first blocked live access and it indeed disallows connection to live BUT I went ahead and tried the live connection test and it went through with no issues at all, stated xbox live is up and running and passed the test so while this may block live connections, they may be able to ping you regardless of this one setting and certainly not a great solution as it is totally unknown what they can or can't do with this type of non access...

I then starting playing around with the network settings, putting in 2 fake dns entries did the trick, when i disabled the gateway ip though i seemed to have lost lan connectivity too

As someone above stated, settings on routers and xboxes can indeed be reset so I would think that as many failsafes you include the better

So, I plan on...
1)blocking xbox live in xbox 'console settings'
2)adding fake dns primary and secondary
3)block the mac address in my router settings
4)configure 'manual settings' to allow internal network but not external
5)keeping it plugged in all the time as streaming from the couch just isn't the same if i have to get up and plug in the cable! and umm, let the chips fall where they may!

These were tested on a stock 'live' machine to see what worked and didn't work, i certainly wouldn't try anything on your unbanned flashed xbox until you are certain you know what you are doing first

good luck

from thread: http://forums.xbox-s...howtopic=695292