Hello,
I have a Red Eclipse server running on our LAN on a Windows XP computer. Ports are open on Windows Firewall. Other Windows XP computers on the LAN are able to find and connect to the server. We have one Linux laptop (Linux Mint 15) that is unable to find (and hence connect) to the LAN. (Servers on the WAN or internet are found and displayed just fine.) The firewall program installed/used on our Linux Mint laptop is Firestarter. Tried opening ports 28800, 28801, 28802 (incoming and leaving as outgoing permissive settings on the Linux Mint machine but still wasn't able to find the server on our LAN. The server (on our LAN) was only found it when the firewall was completely disabled. I noticed one time that the server was trying to access port 53116 on the Linux Mint laptop, so I opened that port. Then Red Eclipse found the server. However after restarting Red Eclipse server, the Linux Mint laptop no longer found the server on the Win XP machine.
I don't want to completely disable the firewall every time I or one of my kids want to play Red Eclipse on our LAN. Can you help please to explain what is going on and how to fix? Thanks!