Connection issue

[michael]

Greetings.

I have an issue with a palace server (v 4.5.1) I'm trying to set up on the latest version of Ubuntu Server 32 bit. I want to point out I am not a linux expert so any feedback might be helpful. I want to point out that the issue is similar to a post already listed but slightly different as my port 9998 is not being "filtered."

Set up: I have Ubuntu running on VMWare on my personal Mac Mini client. I bridge the network connection. My mac mini is behind an Airport Extreme.

Issue: While I have been able to set up the pserver successfully, I have had issues getting on by connecting my external IP address. I have done every possible combination of IP addresses in the pserver.conf file (in terms of the binding IP address and the front end). I have ran an nmap report and it appears port 9998 is open on the external ip and the local one. I have been able to set up the pserver.conf to allow me to connect with the local IP but not the external. I have also set up the airport extreme to forward 9998 requests to the Ubuntu server (with local port forwarding on 10001, as what's laid out in the pserver.conf).

I want to point out that when I try to connect via Palace32 client, a connection is picked up but I am immediately dropped with "Bad Packets" listed in the log as the reason. On pchat, the log says I'm connected but then it just freezes, showing no background or avatar.

Here is what I have in my pserver.conf. Not to be redundant, but just to reiterate I have tried every combination imaginable with this but I will be willing to try any suggestions:

BINDADDRESS "10.0.1.9"
FRONTEND "9998" "70.119.72.139" (this is my external IP, you can try connecting to see what I mean)


Thanks for any help you can offer in advance.