Talk:Network Settings

Under the "Straightforward" subsection, is that stuff with iptables/netsh strictly necessary? I was able to rig up my standalone sims to be accessible via an external IP without doing any of that - I just set up a port-forwarding rule in my router, edited the region XML files with the appropriate internal and external IP addresses, and then told my client to connect to the external IP address and it worked like a charm (granted I haven't tried connecting from an actual remote computer but I see no reason in principle why that shouldn't work too). Perhaps for networking neophytes like myself there should be a set of as-simple-as-humanly-possible instructions that'll suffice to get a server accessible to the outside world even if not in the most efficient or elegant way. Bryan Derksen 06:11, 18 April 2009 (UTC)