Firewall problem

[Saint_Dude]

Sounds strange doesn't it? However, if does not seem to matter if my mac firewall is on or off, I still can't run the game with my modem firewall active (despite efforts to the contrary). I figure that I will have to turn off the modem firewall to connect to the game servers, and when I do, I would like to have at least the mac firewall working as a backup. I feel naked without any firewall protection, even if it is only for a minute or two at a time.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Two firewalls isn't such a bad idea, actually, if one's software and the other's hardware.

... Unfortunately, without buttocks-based access (being on site), I really can't do anything w/o error messages.

Though I can point you towards several play by email games.

[Saint_Dude]

Thanks for the help.

I have played a lot of PBEM before discovering this forum and TCP/IP play. Hard to go back. While inconvenient, my current difficulties are not any more cumbersome than PBEM.

All that is likely to happen is that I will scale back the number of games that I play (1 or 2 instead of 4,5, or 6). My wife is pleased to no end.

[Rathar]

Dear Saint Ham-bone,

As you can see I have returned from my honeymoon and as a result no longer suffer from the drawback of annoying my fellow players with 6 week long staling of turns.

Therefore I wish to slay you asap in a game of some sort.

The end.

Rathar

P.s. So glad your move went well, our wedding was awesome but not nearly as awesome without your presences, honeymoon was amazing except we got wholesale robbed of everything but our clothes.. Meh..!

As to the problem with your issues, errmm I dunno! Oh and I also concur in regards to your opinion about tcp/ip games versus pbem. Once you done the best, the rest are indeed forgotten.!