Once you have found the page you need, you want to set a rule that says incoming UDP requests on port 27015 are sent to port 27015 on the IP address of your server. You are looking for "pinholes", "virtual servers", or "port redirects". On most hardware firewalls, you need to set this in the Advanced pages. Once you have set a reservation for your server, record the IP address.įor the server to be reachable, network requests must reach it. Otherwise, you have to enter the "MAC address" of the server, and the IP address, into the reservation manually. Many are particularly friendly in that you can find your machine's DHCP "lease" and just copy that into a reservation. On most hardware firewalls, on the DHCP page you have options to set "reservations". The technique used to assign addresses to machines is called DHCP. So you must ensure that every time your machine is turned on or connected, it gets the same address.
The server must always be at the same address on your in-house network, otherwise game requests will go somewhere else and nobody will be able to log in. Locking a machine to a private IP address Making a pinhole will require that you log in to your firewall (usually from Internet Explore, Firefox, or some other browser), lock your server to a single private IP address, and then direct a port to that address. This is not the place to go into the reasons why you should have a separate hardware firewall we will simply assume that you do. To do that, you have to open a pinhole in your firewall.
Once you have your server running, if it is your own machine, you have to let people connect to it. Information in this section applies to all Operating Systems Publishing a server 5 How many slots can I get on my connection?.3 SetupArrayProps_R: array prop '(null)' is at index zero.2.8.4 People have to download files every time they join!.2.8.3 I see red error models / purple and black textures!.2.5 What exactly is needed for a server to function with sv_downloadurl?.2.4.2 Content that must be manually added.2.4.1 Content that is automatically downloaded.2.4 So how does Fast Download work exactly?.2.1 What exactly is Fast Download or sv_downloadurl?.1.1.1 Locking a machine to a private IP address.1 Information in this section applies to all Operating Systems.