port forwarding

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El Neil

does anybody know why when i play online games from behind my router, i dont need to set up port forwarding, but if i design a game in blitz using directplay or whatever, the computers cannot talk to each other because the ports are not forwarded? is there any way of getting round this (ie a specific port number which lets things through?)

thanks

neil