ESports/Gaming in a school

[atkins]

Hi all,

 

I'm looking at running a private LAN party where I work, but upon trying to install/run Steam & Battle.Net on my laptop, it won't allow me to connect or sign in, and in the case of Battle.Net, I can't even install it due to not being able to connect to their servers!

 

We use a Lightspeed filtering system, and the device I'm using has been placed in the bypass list, so I'm not being filtered by that appliance

 

The only next step of filtering would be upstream at our internet provider, does anybody have any info about what is needed to be unblocked to use those services?

 

For reference, the services we'd be trying to use are:

 

Steam

Misc games on steam, such as Golf With Your Friends, CS:GO etc

Battle.Net

Games such as Overwatch, WOW etc

 

Any help would be appreciated!

[elsiegee40]

Hi

 

Welcome to EduGeek. You are a new user here and you may find others are suspicious of your request as it reads like a student trying to bypass network security.

 

EduGeeks are naturally a suspicious bunch, but are doubly so since events at Skinners Kent Academies.

 

Either you need to talk to your Network Manager or you you need to get yourself known a bit bit better. Why not start by introducing yourself in our introductions thread?

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/general-chat/947-new-edugeek-users-introduce-yourself-here.html

[atkins]

Ah! Yeah, I can understand why that would look suspect!

 

If it helps my case, I've been accepted into ANME? - I'll make an introductory post, though

[Boredguy]

Each of those different applications uses different ports, and honestly it's not something you would normally want to look at opening up unless you were in a boarding school situation.

If it was purely for personal devices and nothing school owned (which has it's own licencing implications for the platforms mentioned) then you'd be best off setting up a dedicated vLan purely for that purpose.

[atkins]

Yeah - we have a VLAN set up for it already, which has no access to any of our internal networks for security reasons as it's going to be an event I'm holding outside of school days/hours

 

Essentially the setup is, from a network perspective, a bunch of PCs/laptops connected to a pfSense VM running on a proxmox stack (which also would contain things like grafana graphing for our monitoring, a lancache, local gameservers for any local games etc), on a separated VLAN, which runs back to our Lightspeed filtering appliance - with the internal IP of our pfSense router put on the bypass list for said filtering appliance

[Boredguy]

no additional firewall rules on your router or is it all controlled by your lightspeed filter?

[atkins]

Nothing additional, it all goes via our lightspeed filter