Required Network Ports for a Multiplayer Freelancer Game

This article describes the ports that you must have to play and host a Microsoft Freelancer 1.0 multiplayer game through a firewall, a proxy server, a router, Network Address Translation (NAT), or Internet Connection Sharing.

Microsoft Windows firewall

With Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), you do not have to manually create port exceptions in the firewall. You may now create exceptions for the program itself.

To do this, follow these steps.

Note Never open a port for a program that you do not recognize.

1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. Click Security Center.
3. Click Windows Firewall.
4. Click the Exceptions tab.
5. Click Add Program.
6. Click Browse.
7. Locate the game's executable file, and then click Open. By default, the game is installed in one of the following locations:
   C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\EXE\Freelancer.exe
   C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\EXE\FLServer.exe
8. Click OK two times.

For additional information about how to use the Windows firewall, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: If you are not using the Windows firewall, you may still have to know the ports that are used by the game when you configure your network.

Port listing

To make sure that these ports are open or to open these ports, contact your network administrator or Internet service provider (ISP). If you are the administrator of the network, view the documentation that is provided with your networking software to determine how to open these ports. Freelancer Server requires that the following ports be open to host multiplayer games: Freelancer requires that the following ports be open to play a multiplayer game:
Note For additional information about how to configure Freelancer for your network, see the Readmeserver.htm file that is located in the Extras folder on the Freelancer CD.