MAKE SURE YOUR SETTINGS FOR ZONEALARM ARE ON LOW BEFORE SIGNING INTO XBOX LIVE OR YOU WILL BE BANNED!!!
Step -1
Download Cain and Zonealarm (In the downloads section)
Step -2
Open Zonealarm , from the left menu you should see and option called Firewall, Click that and you should
see new options in the middle. Like main, Zones, Expert...Click Zones.
Step -3
you should see 2 already in there called " New Network " Just leave them there supposed to be there, you are
going to need the xbox server before you do any kind of forcing or anything like that. So open Cain while your signed
onto xbox live, and make sure it is searching for your ethernet adapter for your xbox and wait for the ips to come up there
should only be like 2 or 3
Step -4
Once you have the xbox live ips go back to zonealarm , and click the add button at the bottom, and 4 options
should come up
a. Host/site
b. ip address
c. ip range
d. subnet
Click ip address.
A new window should come up that has,
a drop down bar that has
-Trusted, and blocked
-Ip address
-description
keep it as Trusted, in ip address put in the xbox live ip address, and put anything for description( i just put xbox
live) then click ok,( do that for all the ips that came up in Cain)
Step -6
a. Have the person you want to force host to, to go make a party, and have no one else join
b.Use Cain to get his ip
c.Put his ip in the trusted zone of your zonealarm
d.Click main, in Zonealarm and
and it will ask you to save click yes, then make sure your Internet Zone Security tab
is on HIGH and your Trusted Zone Security is on Med.
There your friend should now be host!!