Hosting own server

[Sjdeany]

Hello i'm wanting to host my own server (not dedicated) from my own PC so I can play Co-op missions with friends, I know I need to forward some ports but i'm struggling to understand what ports I need to forward.

Please help.

thanks.

[Günter Severloh]

Hosting your own missions all you need to do is go to mp, then start a new server, pick the island, and then the mission,
set the pw if you need it and your done, is that what you had in mind?

[Sjdeany]

Yes but on previous games where i've done that people could not connect.

[Günter Severloh]

Ok, when hosting make sure when hosting a mission that requires addons, or files, or even patch that the person/s connecting
have the same files as you, or it aint going to happen.

[Mosh]

If you do need to open ports, not sure if you do or not for hosting, here's the info...


By default the Armed Assault server is reporting to Gamespy and it also uses the Gamespy server to negotiate a NAT traversal. If this does not work reliably for you (e.g. when running behind very strict firewall), you may need to open and/or forward following incoming ports:

port UDP (used for game)
port+1 UDP (used for server reporting)
port+3 UDP (used for VoN transmissions)

Following outgoing ports need to be open as well:

port UDP (used for game)
port+3 UDP (used for VoN transmissions)

Default value of port is 2302, but you may change it by -port command line argument.

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA:_Dedicated_Server