What type of router are you using?

huh? so you have at least 2 ethernet ports, one to the modem and one to the xbox?

i have static ip and the connection comes into the comp on 1 nic and goes out to the xbox with the other nic and instead of using internet connection sharing( ICS ) i am using a software firewall and ics is not enabled and cant be in order for the firewall to work.

the firewall is kerio winroute firewall. http://www.kerio.com/kwf_home.html

oh its connected right and i can connect to live fine and most games but cant connect to some friends and i know this is the reason for it cause i have looked it up in the past.   i just got this firewall not to long ago and figured out how most of it works but cant get this right.  with ICS on my other comp its nat 1 but this comp without ICS and the software firewall its nat 3 and remember i cant use ICS on this comp cause of the firewall.

also most people dont know this but you can only directly ping an xbox 1 way.   if you try to ping your xbox ip it wont ping it but if you goto settings in the xbox dashboard and then network settings and hit connect it will run a test and when its done and all 4 lights go green dont push anything on the controller and leave that screen that says connected and you can ping the xbox only when its in this screen. ;)

see here in my pic top ping is without the connected screen and bottom is with the xbox in the connected mode.


Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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C:\Documents and Settings\Eebobb>ping 192.168.0.254

Pinging 192.168.0.254 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.254:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\Documents and Settings\Eebobb>ping 192.168.0.254

Pinging 192.168.0.254 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.0.254: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.254: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.254: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.254: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.254:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Eebobb>

I had to set my xbox up on the demilitarized or what ever that setting is for it to work properly through firewall not sure if that will work though with software firewall though.