Ports and my autohost

[sgnl05]

I'm trying to set up an autohost and I've hit a bit of a brick wall. My autohost comp and my gaming comp are both behind the same router. Before I set up the autohost my router was set up to forward ports 8452 and 8200 (spring's ports) to my gaming comp. When I set up the autohost I could connect to it just fine but everyone else timed out. I've realised now it was because the ports in question weren't forwarded to the autohost. To check I changed my router settings to forward the ports to the autohost and sure enough other players can connect to it just fine but now my gaming computer can't.

So how do I configure my router to allow both computers to connect?

[hoijui]

you need TCP + UDP, the port numbers are correct

[Forboding Angel]

I'm trying to set up an autohost and I've hit a bit of a brick wall. My autohost comp and my gaming comp are both behind the same router. Before I set up the autohost my router was set up to forward ports 8452 and 8200 (spring's ports) to my gaming comp. When I set up the autohost I could connect to it just fine but everyone else timed out. I've realised now it was because the ports in question weren't forwarded to the autohost. To check I changed my router settings to forward the ports to the autohost and sure enough other players can connect to it just fine but now my gaming computer can't.

So how do I configure my router to allow both computers to connect?

SImple, just set up two rules. One to tell it to forward to one comp, and another to tell it to forward to the other comp.

[sgnl05]

SImple, just set up two rules. One to tell it to forward to one comp, and another to tell it to forward to the other comp.

I can't. My router only allows one rule per port, which makes sense since ports are used for distinguishing between computers that share the same public IP address.

That's the problem really. How can my router know which computer to send data to if they're both sharing the same public address and the same ports?

[aegis]

you only need port 8200 if you're hosting a lobby server, and the autohost/host port is configurable.