hosting venrilo behind a router

[mamo4444]

i have a linksys wireless router and wanted to know what ports i needed to open up in order to host a ventrilo server. If you could please write down the steps in a very simple manner that would be excellent. help is much appreciated

[Patrick]

3784

Instructions: Search the forums and/or website; it has been covered several times before.

[mamo4444]

well i have tried everthing that was written and it did not work. i opened the ports that we listed and still nothing.

[Patrick]

Provide a little more information on what you have tried so we don't tell you to try something you already have, thanks.

[mamo4444]

when i got into my router setting there is an option for applications and gaming, in that option it has multiple rows where you can open ports. the listings in that option go like this: application (ventrilo), start (3783), end (3785), protocol (both UDP and TCP), IP address ( i put the one that shows up when i run the server), Enable (check mark in the box). I have disabled the wireless firewall through windows. I have norton ativirus and microsoft antispyware i am not sure if these programs would have anything to do with it, as far as i could see they did not have firewalls.

[Patrick]

You can forward just 3784 to 3784 but it doesn't really make a difference if you don't care about opening up those other two ports as well. Everything else looks fine and that is the correct location to make those changes.

I would disable those programs and then try again; are you able to connect and no one else or are you not even able to connect?

[NightStalker]

just a question, which ip would it be that people would connect to? In my console window it says accepting connections from 192.168.1.101 and 127.0.0.1. I've used the my ip thing on the ventrilo website and found my ip. I've opened the port for the server and given my friend all three of those ip's and he cannot connect to any of those.

[Patrick]

You need to foward port 3784 for the LAN specified IP, which appears to be the 192.168.1.101 for you. Once you have done that, you provide everyone else outside of your home network the IP you see displayed on this page: www.ventrilo.com/myip.php

If that does not work, you need to disable WindowsXP firewall and any other software related firewall applications you have as well.

[NightStalker]

when forwarding the ports do I enable TCP, UDP, or both?

[tbenoit]

TCP for communications.

UDP if you wish to also run the Status script against it.

[ElementReaper]

When using ventrilo behind a firewall/router it is important that your router allow a connection to be established on the port specified by the server that you are going to connect to. The default port is 3784, however, the person who runs the server you want to connect to can change the port number to what ever they want. You will need to tell Ventrilo what the port number is when you define the server, but you might need to tell your router to "open" this port in order to allow outbound connections. Most routing equipment doesn't need this to be done, but some people do run overly restrictive router configurations that will only allow outbound connections to specific port numbers. Bandwidth usage will be determined by what codec the server instructs the client program to use. The default configuration for a server is to use the GSM 6.10 codec and sampling at 11Khz. After compression this will consume approximately 3K bytes per second per voice stream.

Using the 3K bytes/sec example this will translate into the following numbers. If you are in a channel (not to be confused with a server) and there are 3 other people in the same channel as you:

One of the other people talking will produce 3K bytes of inbound data.
Two people in the same channel talking will produce 6K bytes of inbound data.
Three people in the same channel talking will produce 9K bytes of inbound data.
And so on....

As you can see the mathematics are very simple.

The outbound traffic coming from you and going to the server will remain constant when ever you are broadcasting. Using the default codec you will produce approximately 3K bytes/sec of outbound data.

If the server administrator chooses a different codec and sample rate then the bandwidth utilization will change as well. It might be higher or lower but only the server admin can control this.

While connected to a server you can click on the "Setup" button and the voice page will show you which codec and sample rate the server has defined. This information is visible in the "Test with" box. Changing these values does not effect which codec you actually use. They are meant for use with the "Test" button so that you can hear how each codec will effect the sound quality of your voice transmissions.

[abuse]

Just open the DMZ on your Linksys router for the computer hosting it. Although it may not be recommended, it works.

[windbell]

i've completed all setup until my friend from internet told me still can not connect to my server..
i tried log on to my server from same computer by using my local network assigned ip 192.168.0.2 and it works fine.....but if i changed ip to globe ip, it just freezing there until tells me "can not connect to server"
so i read the last message says enable the DMZ...
but there's a DMZ ip address under there...should i type in my local IP or the globle IP....