Kerio firewall and Warcraft2

[premier69]

Help me

I'm trying to run warcraft 2 using IPX networking

I can't get it to allow IPX

There's no pre settings for that

I got this response from a friend, tho in the end he couldn't help me:

Kerio, as do other desktop firewalls, manages IP-Networking, ie TCP/UDP/ICMP, and not IPX!

you have to enable IPX in your network configuration

ALL desktop firewall hang themselves onto the Windows TCP/IP stack! und not IPX!

==> there is basically no control!

so everything should be allowed

does your internet provider use IPX capable connections??

Does your switch / router support IPX??

NOW: I would say my 3com switch supports IPX since the other 2 computers in my network can play warcraft 2 without problems and neither one of them has Kerio.

I suppose i have to reboot after i disable the firewall since it does nothing to help, but i feel uncomfortable disabling the firewall.

[Zxian]

Can you not just allow WarCraft2 full network access?

IPX networking can be a pain in the a** sometimes - I could never get it to work with Red Alert 2, dispite manually entering addresses and all that crap.

[premier69]

there are no settings what so ever for IPX and i have tried creating my own rule and using allow any protocol at both directions for all program but it will not work.

btw, im using kerio v2 something not the v4, i heard it sucked...

[Zxian]

Kerio v4 does not suck... whoever told you that hasn't used it properly then.

Try upgrading to v4 to see if you get access to a little more functionality in controlling the traffic. If all else fails, you can always go back to v2 if you want.