FIREWALL! HELP! :: World of Warcraft

#1 Jan 12 2004 at 7:33 PM Rating: Decent

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Hey everyone-

My school currently has a firewall up that prevents me from accessing Play Online. Is there a way to bypass this with the PC? And also, if it is firewalled with the PC, is the PS2 firewalled as well? thank you for reading.

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#2 Jan 12 2004 at 7:38 PM Rating: Decent

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First of all, you should check with an admin before you try accessing it (For some sick twisted reason, your schol might not want you accessing POL.. I don't know why, but maybe they do. Maybe to suppress the student body.. :) )

The next step is to find out what kind of Firewall is involved. Hardware? Software? A linux box?

And as far as the Ps2 being fire'walled.. This is a possibility, since the PS2 has to access the same server that PC users do. I'm not too sure on what ports POL uses.

Good luck..

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#3 Jan 12 2004 at 10:35 PM Rating: Decent

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Like above, you basically have to ask whoever controls your firewall to open the port required by the POL client and FFXI. Here is the relevant port information...

https://secure.playonline.com/polapps/s/s.kb.html.Qa?ZUID=3&polg_loc=en&id=2293&qs=id%3D0%26c1%3D6%26c2%3D35%26k%3D%26s%3D0%26o%3D10%26term%3D0%26caseNum%3D10%26polg_loc%3Den

As a network engineer, if someone asked me to do this, they would be greeted with a firm "Hell no", but that's me. Maybe I'm just weird about networks being used for what they are supposed to be used for, but I'm old so nevermind.

Z

Edited, Mon Jan 12 22:38:28 2004 by Zandder

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#4 Jan 13 2004 at 11:24 AM Rating: Decent

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I agree with Zander 100%. Chances of you getting your school to do anything to allow you to play FFXI via their bandwidth (possibly on their PC's?) are two: none and forget it...:) Being one of those IT monkeys as well, that would just be opening many issues. The only problem I have with Sony's "help" is:

PlayOnline(including all related software such as FINAL FANTASY XI) may use any of the following ports. If you are using a router, please configure it to allow packets to pass through these ports.

Port numbers that may be used by the PlayOnline server group.
TCP 25.80.110.443 or 50000 - 65535
UDP 50000 - 65535

Port numbers that may be used by terminals such as the PlayStation(R)2.
TCP 1024 - 65535
UDP 50000 - 65535

This is a highly negligent (sp) approach to providing the information that someone needs to config a software/hardware based firewall setup. To just open these ranges of ports can potentially expose someone to trojans/apps/exploits if your firewall does manage via the application level (IE Allows said application to connect to whatever ports it wants). I really would like Sony to provide better information in this case to make assist users to be able to protect themselves.

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