Is is possible to change client net port ?

[yossarianuk]

Hi.

Is there a way to change the UDP port used by paintball2 ?

Cheers

[KnacK]

Yes, as long as the server is talking the same port as you want to change to.

or....


You could use PAT = port address translation - on your firewall.  Where you have your wirewall change the outbound and inbound port.

[XtremeBain]

The PB2 client uses a randomized client port to protect against connectionless packet exploits (Q2MSG is the common tool for this exploit).  I believe you can override this by specifying the client port in the command line, but I would recommend against using the "default" value of 27901 since it would be trivial for someone to fire up Q2MSG and start stuffing commands down to the client.

[jitspoe]

cl_port, maybe?  I don't remember offhand.  As Bain said, it's randomized each time the game is loaded to prevent attacks.

[Herron]

Add this to the end of your command line (where ##### is whatever UDP port you want to use):

+set qport #####

You can't change it in-game because it's write protected.

[jitspoe]

Actually, qport is something different - that's attached to the packets so if two people connect from the same IP and port, the server can distinguish between them.

[Herron]

Oops.  I just thought I remembered that Q2MSGs worked based on qport values and that's why you started randomizing them.