port forwarding

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if i design a game in blitz using directplay or whatever, the computers cannot talk to each other because the ports are not forwarded?
At least one of the computers (typically but not nessecarily the server) needs to have a publically reachaqble IP address.

is there any way of getting round this
If your router supports UPnP.