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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 port forwarding (NAT type Open)

If UPNP or DMZ is not an option for you (or you want more security), you can manually forward some ports to get NAT Type OPEN for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3.
28960 is the port that COD has always used, but you need some steam ports too. The screenshot below might have some ports that are only needed for outgoing connections but documentation is really hard to find about these ports. It works for me with these ports.
COD MW3 port forwarding
To sum up the ports: 28960 (TCP+UDP), 1500 (TCP), 3005 (UDP), 3101 (UDP), 2700-2704 (UDP), 2715-2717 (UDP), 3074 (UDP). You have to forward these ports in your router/modem to your PC. I suggest you read documentation or search the Internet on how to forward ports for your router/model type.

Remember that if you have Windows firewall of another software firewall on your PC enabled you need to add an exception for all these ports in the firewall.

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FORTIGATE : Static routes must have lower distance then default GW

Had this problem on a Fortigate 60B & 60C. Static routes did not work as expected.
The static route did not work until the distance was set to 1 which is lower than the 0.0.0.0 default route who has distance 10. Maybe this is not a bug, but intended behaviour. On Netscreen the 0.0.0.0 default route is always the last to be applied and all other static routes go first.

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VMWARE DR backup destination not mounted on reboot

Concerns VDR 1.2
Solution:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1029746

To resolve this issue:
Open an SSH session to the VDR appliance.
Open the /etc/fstab file using a text editor.
Add this line at the end of the file:

/dev/sdX# /SCSI-0:1 ext3 defaults 0 0

where
/dev/sdX# is the device name and partition number i.e /dev/sda1
/SCSI-0:1 is the mount point
ext3 is the file system type
defaults is the mount option
0 is the dump option
0 is the file system check option

Run these commands to unmount and remount the volume:

umount /SCSI-0:1
mount /SCSI-0:1

The operating system in the VDR appliance should now be able to read the fstab file and remount the volume.

A little help, mount the disk using the GUI then issue command “mount” on SSH with root. This will tell you /dev/sdX# and the /SCSI-#:#