What do I need to do to run BF2 server on my home network????

[[FM]Master_Chief]

I have a D-Link router DI-614+ on my home network. I have one static IP and the router is doing NAT. I want to be able to run a BF2 server on one of my machines.

How do I have to set up my networ and router for people to be able to connect to it???

Someone told me I have to do port forwarding. I found this link and did what it said but nobody can connect.

http://www.no-ip.com/support/guides/routers/dlink.html

Can someone help out please?

EDIT:

I played around with it a bit more. I changed my firewall settings to allow traffic form WAN to that local IP/port but still doesn't work.

I can see the server in server browser in BF2 but I can't connect to it, no matter if I click on it or type in my static IP address (which is the one it shows with on the list of servers). If I type in my local IP it connects.

[12:oc7ock]

Re: What do I need to do to run BF2 server on my home network????

I'm pretty sure all u have to do is go to the BF2 pane in start-programs-ea and launch a standalone server. You'll have to select in the menu your routable IP and thats the IP the other machines will connect to.

[[FM]Master_Chief]

Re: What do I need to do to run BF2 server on my home network????

I finally got it working.

I had to set that machine as demilitarized zone in my router. I guess it requires more ports to be unblocked than just 16567. Only problem this setting will allow any and all traffic from WAN to that machine.

[RAF92_Warhawk]

Re: What do I need to do to run BF2 server on my home network????

congrats masterchief!

[[FM]Master_Chief]

Re: What do I need to do to run BF2 server on my home network????

Hehe, thanks. I've never seen you around here before

[W_Parmenter]

Re: What do I need to do to run BF2 server on my home network????

I have two machines on a home network and want to run the server on one and the client on the other and have the server be accessable for others to play via the internet. I (somewhat) understand how to forward ports and can forward the server ports to the server and client ports to the client but what do I do with the ports labeled Client/Server? Can a port be forwarded to two different machines?