trying to host a game on my university's network

[akak150]

i'm trying to host a game (delta force 2) on my college's T1 network. the apartment that i'm in uses a router. when i put a server up, 3 of them come up and no one can enter any of them.
i was just wondering if it was because of the router or because i'm not assigned a specific ip. i need help in doing this so if anyone has any suggestions, please help me out. i'm thinking that i need to get around the router someway but i don't know how.

[Grimson]

what kind of router ?? I don't know about college networks but I would assume it is possible to host on them. It doesn't matter if you have a static ip or dynamic ip as long as you have an ip.
I would guess you need to forward a port but I don't know which port Delta Force 2 uses.

[Joe]

Im not a very knowledgable on routers etc but whenever this problem has come about with my friends rigs they set there PC (IP) as the dmz in the router config and it worked great afterwards

[ProNinjA]

Alright bro here's your problem; most routers have inbuilt firewalls. Now, to be able to host games there are at least 3 possibilites. 1. you go into your router setup disable the DHCP and NAT and etc., and put in the real ips.(Right Click My Network Places->Properties-> TCP/IP) But u have to know the Subnet Mask, IP Address, and Gateway. Now, I bet your ip starts with 192 or 191(i.e.192.168.1.1) which are assigned ips from your router. (to access your router: you put on any browser you have the gateway; for example, 192.168.1.0 or 192.168.1.254. However, every router has its own ips but most start with 192 and end at 1 till 253.
2. U can go into your router setup, and input the game's port that u using(if u have that option)
3. Ask whoever installed your router in the apartment to configure your stuff for ya since I doubt u will have access to the routers configurations if it has username and admin password setup.

I went to my routers setup and input my ip and disabled the dhcp and NAT, which i had installed; however, it can have a different name for the NAT and etc.