Multiple Computers For Half Life, Kali Or Quake Iii Example; Configuring Wan Setup Options - NETGEAR TA612V Reference Manual

Reference Manual for the Broadband Voice Adapter TA612V
Some considerations for this application are:
• If your account's IP address is assigned dynamically by your ISP, the IP address may change
periodically as the DHCP lease expires.
• If the IP address of the local computer is assigned by DHCP, it may change when the computer
is rebooted. To avoid this, you can manually configure the computer to use a fixed address.
• Local computers must access the local server using the computers' local LAN address
(192.168.61.33 in this example). Attempts by local computers to access the server using the
external IP address (172.16.1.23 in this example) will fail.

Multiple Computers for Half Life, KALI or Quake III Example

To set up an additional computer to play Half Life, KALI or Quake III:
Click the button of an unused port in the table.
1.
Select the game again from the Service Name list.
2.
Change the beginning port number in the Start Port box.
3.
For these games, use the supplied number in the default listing and add +1 for each additional
computer. For example, if you've already configured one computer to play Hexen II (using
port 26900), the second computer's port number would be 26901, and the third computer
would be 26902.
Type the same port number in the End Port box that you typed in the Start Port box.
4.
Type the IP address of the additional computer in the Server IP Address box.
5.
Click Apply to save your changes.
6.
Some online games and videoconferencing applications are incompatible with NAT. The TA612V
adapter is programmed to recognize some of these applications and to work properly with them,
but there are other applications that may not function well. In some cases, one local computer can
run the application properly if that computer's IP address is entered as the default in the PORTS
Menu. If one local computer acts as a game or videoconferencing host, enter its IP address as the
default.

Configuring WAN Setup Options

The WAN Setup options let you configure a DMZ server, change the MTU size and enable the
broadband voice adapter to respond to a Ping on the WAN port. These options are discussed below.
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