• Registered: 2008-08-04
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Topic: PunkBusterB.exe not working again.

PunkBuster has decided to start kicking me out of games again for no reason and I suspect my new router is the perpetrator.  Anyone with network savvy able to tell me how I go about opening port 17567 so punkbuster will work?

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  • Registered: 2006-07-24
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Re: PunkBusterB.exe not working again.

Remote into your router and look for something called "port forwarding."  You'll also need to tell the router to give you the same IP every time-there should be an option for this also (using your computer MAC address as the identifier).

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  • Registered: 2008-08-04
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Re: PunkBusterB.exe not working again.

FSDev| Woodrow wrote:

Remote into your router and look for something called "port forwarding."  You'll also need to tell the router to give you the same IP every time-there should be an option for this also (using your computer MAC address as the identifier).

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This is the page I'm looking at, I got no idea what the interior/exterior ports are.

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Re: PunkBusterB.exe not working again.

You have to check which IP address on your network your PC is using ('Wireless' tab if it's on Wifi) and then fill out the 6th line of that grid....internal and external ports should be the one you need open, protocol leave at 'both', and tick 'enabled' and hit save and you should be good to go with that port open.

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5 Reply by NoubleDegative (edited by NoubleDegative 2008-08-17 01:22:45)

  • Registered: 2008-08-04
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Re: PunkBusterB.exe not working again.

Nothing works, I called Linksys customer support.  I tried putting the ports in each option (single, range, triggering) and nothing.  I put it on DMZ, nothing.  It really annoys me when stuff that should be working fine isn't because of whatever the stupid, little, silly reason might be.

And then I gotta try and understand the guy from India on the other side of the phone, at 10pm in the evening.  Ugh, I hate it when stuff breaks.  sad

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Re: PunkBusterB.exe not working again.

try the chicken sacrifice ...

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Re: PunkBusterB.exe not working again.

It is my understanding that PnkBstrB.exe periodically re-writes itself. I have to keep re-enabling it in my firewall (ZoneAlarm Free). Some anti-spyware software blocks it, too.

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