Cannot host any games (Connection rejected)

[Moonshine Fox]

Hi!

I've forwarded all ports to the correct computers, but whenever I host a game (on port 6596) I get this in the log:

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info: LOBBY: rejecting unexpected connection from Vofflan.lan:6597

Port 6597 is correctly routed to my girlfriends computer.

Now, of course, it's on the LAN so that could be the problem right? Wrong. No one else on FAF can connect to me either and the Portchecker app claims my ports are open.

We can also play just fine if we manually start FA from the binFAF folder without the lobby.

This is what happens when someone else tries to connect:

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info: GPGNET: sending nat packet to xx.xx.xx.xxx:6112
info: GPGNET: sending nat packet to xx.xx.xx.xxx:6112
info: NET: using deflate compression for sends to c-24-34-72-253.hsd1.ma.comcast.net:6112.
info: LOBBY: Adding peer "ProfessorOwnage" [c-24-34-72-253.hsd1.ma.comcast.net:6112, uid=2471]

This looks alright, but they never get into the lobby. Is it something I'm doing wrong somewhere?

[Moonshine Fox]

Follow up question: Does FAF require access to ICMP packets? IE does my router have to reply to pings?

[Ze_PilOt]

I guess so.
It's not FAF, but FA.

[Moonshine Fox]

Which is odd, since I can apparently play without any issues if I connect via "Multiplayer LAN". It's only when I try to host or connect through FAF that it fails. (FAF chat connects just fine though).

[Ze_PilOt]

It's not the same protocol at all with direct IP.

FA use peer to peer with an UDP protocol.

FAF uses TCP to communicate with the server, like a web browser.

[Moonshine Fox]

I've forwarded ports:

6596 UDP (this one is set in FAF)
9103 UDP
30350 UDP
30351 UDP

I can connect to GPGNet just fine. Are there any TCP ports I need to forward as well?