[PLAYING SOD WITH BLOCKED PORTS]

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First, a note : If you're at work or college, and they won't unblock the ports to the game for you, they probably won't appreciate you trying to go around their system. My college's summer staff couldn't figure out how to unblock the ports (what?) so they OK'ed me doing this.

Now, you'll need two programs:
1) Your Freedom
2) Proxycap (30 day trial)

Register an account at Your Freedom, free accounts are limited to 8K/s and disconnect after 4 hours.. OK for playing WR, better option is the 4 euros/month. I get ping between 100-200.

Ok, so run Your-Freedom, and then start Proxycap..
In Proxycap's preferences, in the Proxies menu, create a new one. Socks5, address: localhost, port: 1080

Under rules, create a new rule:
Tunnel Through proxy, select the one you just made under the proxy dropdown, and then for application.. I wasn't sure which ones, exactly, so I made the rules for wrpatcher, patchme, eqgame, and everquest.exe

Anyways, initial setup should now be done, run the patcher and hope it works.. More information can be found on the Your-freedom page.
 
I'm bumping this because it's seems like a really good idea, but does anyone have a more permanent solution? I have about five friends including myself that are trying to get back into SoD but we've been having really intermittent success with being able to log on. So far no more than one computer has been able to actually sign in and play, although I was able to get two accounts running on that computer. Since then, however, we haven't been able to get anything to connect. Most of the time it hangs at some stage during login or occasionally gets to the server select and then hangs. Does anyone have any suggestions for getting better results?
 
I'm interested to know what port SoD uses (1080?) and was effect it may have for only one person on a network to have this port closed.
 
your freedom dont give any permisson the max server port forward is 0 and the time limit within 120min
any thing wrong here?
 
i am working with an ISA server in our company and it seems im just too dumb to set it up so i can play. Whatever new rules i create to allow the traffic, its being blocked again by some other rule. Any ISA Specialists out there who can give a brother a hand?
 
Ports open on router but will not connect. I'll give the info I have, but unless the ports have changed since the FAQ's have been posted, I'm stumped.
Router: Westel Versalink 327W
O/S: Windows XP Home SP2 (Firewall disabled since I'm letting the router handle everything.)
Opened ports: (Both TCP and UDP allowed to pass to my PC by "name".)
5997 - Loginserver
9000 - World Server
7770-7794
7950-8091
Router Firewall set to Medium allowing NAT exceptions as listed above.
I am NOT, repeat, NOT set up on the DMZ.
The "Host" file was checked against the FAQ and Wiki, it looks fine, quotes and brackets and all.

The game was working fine with no firewall set on the router, but once I enabled the firewall, it stopped connecting with the "1001" error. I had to set up firewall because somebody was flooding the IP and causing major lag for both myself on the game and another computer playing AVP2. Don't know which computer the aggresor was after, but the lag has subsided since the firewall was put into place, hence it's reason for existing.

Note: other games work just fine through the NAT exceptions with the firewall running. My best guess is that there may be a port that has been changed or updated and it hasn't been changed in the FAQ's.  Just a guess though, and probably a wrong one. Constructive criticism happily accepted.

....and now that I've ressurected a two-year-old thread...<* winces in anticipation *> any Idea how I can get this moved to a new thread like it should have been? 

edit: Checked firewall log, had to open some more ports. it was trying to use ports such as 1699 and 1717 UDP so I just blew open 1600 to 1800 UDP and connects and plays fine. Again, ports on the FAQ's might need updating.
 
EDIT;

The settings you have are those you would use if you were offering SoD services. They allow machines outside to make inbound connections. You really should only need to allow all outbound connections and deny all inbound connections.
 
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hey all, this one may be a doozie....if you dont know much about http/ssl/socks5 proxies just ignore this lol...

ok, heres the deal.....im trying to figure out how to connect to SoD. im on a VERY restrictive network, all traffic must be tunneled through a http/ssl proxy which restricts what we can do. i use an anonymizer called Tor which comes with a local proxy server called Polipo that i use so i can tell firefox and such to proxy through localhost to view unrestricted internet (localhost proxy = tor anonymizer tunnel). now, in a perfect world, i would just use a proxifier like freecap//proxycap//sockscap//etc to proxify EQ and connect via Tor's socks5 port 9050. Sadly, the Tor network does _NOT_ support 'UDP Associate' packets which EQ uses, so I can't connect. my next idea, which I got after reading this thread, was to try Your Freedom. Sadly, I cannot connect to Your Freedom directly. I must tunnel it through Tor, otherwise my proxy ((the restrictive one)) blocks it. So, I set YF up to connect through my Tor Socks5. I can get it to connect to a few different ems## servers ((been trying 06 and 09, not sure if they support UDP -- would explain why its not working if thats the case -- btw i can not scan for them, none show up in the server list for me)) but it will not connect to EQ. I see that Tor has established a link to ems09.your-freedom.de over SSL (port443). then I open eq, try to connect, then i alt-tab and look at the YourFreedom (YF) Streams tab and i see that it has indeed opened a connection ((Local Addr = 127.0.0.1 || LPort = 1080 || Remote Addr = (SOCKS ctl) || RPort = 0 || State = Open || Bytes Sent = 0 || Bytes Recieved = 0)) it doesnt send any data, doesnt recieve any data.

heres how its set up basically

EQ + Proxifier binding EQ to port 1080 through Your-Freedom's Socks5 Proxy on port 1080
Your-Freedom connecting to ems09 (YF Server) through Tor on Socks5 Proxy Port 9050
Tor connects through the evil lamezor http proxy on 8080 and out through the interweb.

so...like i said above, in theory...since Tor cant do the UDP shit I need...I figured YF would be able to tunnel it through Tor. is that right? or am i totally wrong? Also, if anyone could PM me a cgi relay for YF that would be baller...or any other way i could connect to YF without getting blocked.

anyway, if this didnt make any sense to you, my apologies...its kinda complicated lol. if it did make sense to you and you have a sugguestion, please let me know <3. THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR TIME! i like cookies
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ngl but i gave up on trying to connect here; the server code won't let me connect with a bogged down connection during the day, and YF+ProxyCap don't work on my laptop's EQ at the college library. I said fuck it until I come home for my college winter break. D:
 
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