"End of Round Screen" Problems

[Private Ryan]

hey all!

::hmph:: i'm having a really annoying problem. the game runs perfectly fine except for right after a round ends. instead of being able to check out the end of round stats (best squad, etc.) the game loses its connection and i am brought back to the account login screen.

i know that the problem is a hardware " sonicwall" firewall that is installed on my network. all of the required ports are open, however i still have the same problem. unfortunatly i cannot disable the firewall or take it off of the network because my dad needs it for work. i will occasionaly get lucky and not have the connection drop but 99% of the time i get kicked from teh server when the round ends. when i bring my pc to a friends house w/o a firewall it works great.

i was hoping someone would have an idea of what to do. thanks for any help! :cry:

[Nppl_Player]

i know im my firewall i can make it so it dosent block certin programs see if u can make it so it dosent block bf2 then it should work, if u cant them in not really sure.

[enigma89]

I get that problem also and I have a sonicwall firewall as well! It always takes me back to the EA login screen and gives me an error message...anyone have any idea of what to do!??!
i'll get the exact error message and post it
thanks for any help

[jdogg88-Fed]

hmmm i know a few ppl with a sonicwall firewall as well and have the same problem

[enigma89]

the error msg is "There was an error reading from the server." and it puts you back into the EA logon screen

[Private Ryan]

wow so im really not alone after all?

wow im SO glad im not alone...

i really hope i can find an answer to this problem i dont know what to do next

ive tried to set the firewall to allow the progrma complete access to the internet and teh game runs fine until i get to the end where i get kicked to login screen with teh "error reading from server message"

[Tsuto]

Well, so much for looking before I posted. >.<

I have the exact same problem. The exact same one. Any word from SonicWall?

[Tsuto]

I posted a message reguarding this on SonicWall's message forums. Hopfully someone there will have an answer for us.

[enigma89]

awesome, keep us updated. also any other ideas would be appreciated

[Tsuto]

Right. This is someone's post:

'this is probably an issue with the network inactivity timeout settings on the outbound access rules (or possibly, the timeouts on the inbound rules if they are needed for the game to work).

The default of 5 minutes can safely be edited to 30 minutes, but it may be better to write a rule for the game and change the timeout only on that rule.

You may want to give us more details (Firmware version and type) and also look in the SNWL log at the time of the game disconnect to see if there are any hints in there.'

Time to cowboy up, boys. Lets go collect the data this guy needs and see if we can't fix our game.

[Tsuto]

Guys, I have somthing you should try. Make sure that these ports are open:

TCP:
6667 (IRC)
3783 (Voice Chat Port)
27900 (Master Server UDP Heartbeat)
28900 (Master Server List Request)
29900 (GP Connection Manager)
29901 (GP Search Manager)
13139 (Custom UDP Pings)
6515 (Dplay UDP)
6500 (Query Port)

Try that, and let me know if it solves the problem.

[enigma89]

guys, check out what i found: http://forums.totalbf2.com/archive/i...hp/t-6277.html

some guy found a solution to the problem (one of the last posts). i'm going to try it...i'll let you guys know.

btw tsuto: that post by the sonicwall guy went wayyyyy over my head



EDIT: IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tsuto]

It works? BRILLIANT!

We should see if we can get that stickied. It would save people like us from nearly taking the BF2 disks and heading over to EA with a less-then-nice intention.

EDIT: It doesn't work for me. I have a different version. :cry:

[Private Ryan]

whew! ive been away on vacation but i will try this fix as soon as i can and let you all know if it works.

also...do you guys still need that info on teh sonic wall to post in thier forums? if so i can easily get that!

Lets hope that we can all find a fix!!