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Title: Zonealarm (again)
Post by: danny_1982_y on January 27, 2004, 02:53:00 AM

Hi,

Both Xlink and the Kai beta work like a dream, great pieces of software!

However, they only work for me when I've turned my firewall off - zonealarm.  I've read in this forum that plenty of other people have had trouble with it too.  My question is, has anyone actually figured how to use it with xlink/kai?

I've manually configured my internet zone to allow UDP ports 34518, 34519 and 6073 (both incoming and outgoing) but it still won't connect to anyone's games.  

I really don't want to have to shut off my firewall everytime I want to play.  Any ideas?

Cheers.  Dan

Title: Zonealarm (again)
Post by: danny_1982_y on January 27, 2004, 05:31:00 AM

Aha ... cracked it.  You CAN use xlink (and I'm sure Kai too) with Zonealarm WITHOUT having to shutting it down.  Or even lowering the security settings for internet zone and trusted zone.  I accidentally discovered it when using my girlfriend's computer as the ICS gateway - for some reason she had a different zonealarm setup than myself.

Here are my settings in case anyone else is still having this problem (though I don't know which one exactly does the trick).  Oh, and is it ok to have these ports open?  I'm not leaving some huge backdoor open am I?

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Internet Zone Security - Stealth Mode (HIGH)
Custom options:
- Allow outgoing DNS (UDP port 35)
- Allow outgoing DHCP (UDP port 67)
- Allow broadcast/multicast
- Block incoming NetBIOS (ports 135, 137-9, 445)

Trusted Zone Security - Sharing Mode (MEDIUM)
Custom options:
- Allow outgoing DNS (UDP port 35)
- Allow outgoing DHCP (UDP port 67)
- Allow broadcast/multicast


(plus allow all access via program control)

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Hope this helps anyone in the same boat.

Title: Zonealarm (again)
Post by: Blank on January 27, 2004, 04:27:00 PM

I just right-clicked on the IP that was incoming from the server (In my log) and clicked allow. Works perfectly ever sense.

EDIT:
BTW, I also have a Linksys Router doing all the appropriate port forwarding.