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Thank you, I wanted to get to the bottom of the problem, but it looks like that its on the servers side, I can play and connect to other servers without any problem. This connection comes from the server to my client computer, so Gamespy is out of the question. BTW is there a way to add servers to favourites, is there a favourites menu("WHAT WERE THEY THINKING???")? Right now I'm using a launcher to connect to the servers I like to play on. I got no feedback from the servers admin unfortunately. If I have any more data regarding this issue I will post it here!

Hi, I have a strange NAT error too. ver 1.03 client and server. I have an OpenBSD PF setup on my gateway, which is a stateful firewall. I can connect to a lot of servers, but there is one, that is making these problems, and its password protected(i don't think thats makes a difference). I would like to ask whether is there a configuration switch for this, or maybe the router on the servers side is natting rather "poorly" (randomly setting up ports despite that it should stick to the port that is being expected on clients side). There was some change in the 1.03 update for handling NAT. I have a local network and I'm connecting through the gateway with pppoe, lets use these definitions for making it simplier: LAN_IP = my ip on the local network PUB_IP = the ip of the outside interface on the gateway that is reachable from the internet SERV_IP = the ip of the server I would like to connect to. I can see the following happen on my gateway, with numerous logging and diag tools: My Firewall stores and maintains this connection in the nat session table, so everything coming back from this initial connection should get back to my client: udp LAN_IP:2304 -> PUB_IP:60269 -> SERV_IP:33307 the connection goes like this: PUB_IP:60269 > SERV_IP:33307 PASSED After this the server tries to make a new connection to my computer on another port (WTH???): SERV_IP:32971 > PUB_IP:53074 BLOCKED SERV_IP:32971 > PUB_IP:53074 BLOCKED SERV_IP:32971 > PUB_IP:53074 BLOCKED SERV_IP:32971 > PUB_IP:53074 BLOCKED The udp port on the servers side is random every time I try to connect, so editing the firewall rules is out of the question. However I tried setting up explicitly to pass the connection to the server and back, it was no use, the problem here is NAT, and NAT wont work if there is no outgoing connection to the server from the client that is initiated by the client. I have upnp set up on the gateway so that should be working too, I tried making the port range broader for the upnp setup, but it was not working, and new ports are not showing up on the gateway. I tried the stuff, forwarding the ports needed for server and voice (2302 2303 2305 2307) to the client on lan. There should not be open ports on the client in this situation in my opinion. So the last question is: Is there something you can do to make rid of this error on the servers side? Or there is no such thing, and the network setup on the other side is wrong(I don't know if there is a router in front of the server yet :|, but I will ask, and we will try to debug this situation with the servers owner). Thanks in advance :).