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RBR50 Port forwarding not working
Hi, I'm trying to set up an minecraft server for me and my friends at school and i need to port forward port number 25565, but it doesnt work. My router from ISP is in bridge mode, im not using D...
My public IP from whatismyip.com matches the one in on the orbi admin panel, tried looking up 25565 port on https://www.grc.com/shieldsup but it shows that it is closed. And i have port 25565 open on my computer.
Thank you.
An interesting dilemma. When I probe my computer, Shields Up! reports that the port is "Stealth".
Gibson says that Stealth means the connection attempt was ignored. Closed means that the computer refused the connection.
https://www.grc.com/su/portstatusinfo.htm
This indicates to me that the router passed the connection attempt to the computer and the computer refused the connection.
i.e. time to focus on the computer rather than the router.
Interesting, i'm currently using an macbook and i have the firewall disabled and all incoming connections should be allowed.
Its in polish, but it says that it is turned off.
I also tried on my windows computer, i didnt want to make these rules for firewall so i disabled the firewall and the port is still closed, also i updated the rule on orbi to my pc IP.
(I am running out of ideas.....)
The port being reported "Closed" rather than "Stealth" would seem to indicate that the connection got passed through the router to the computer on the LAN and then rather than simply disappearing, was reported "Closed".
Thoughts:
- Is the MInecraft server actually listening on port 25565?
On Windows, I use a tool called TCPView by Sysinternals
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/tcpview
This program displays every process on the computer that is active on TCP or UDP and what state it is in.
(Be prepared for a shock when you see how much is "going on" in the background.)
If the Minecraft Server is actively listening for connections, there should be a process listening on port 25565.
There may be a similar tool for MacOS. - Is there something special about a Minecraft connection? Does the connection packet have to include some parmeter or value?
(I'm sure there is probably a login of some type, but that comes after a connection is established.) - Can the connection be captured? On Windows, I use Wireshark to capture every packet that flows through the ethernet adapter. I would expect to see that connection attempt on port 25565. (There is also Wireshark for MacOS if you are more comfortable with that platform.)
- What about capturing using the router? On the debug page, Orbi has an option to Enable LAN/WAN Packet Capture. After starting the capture, try the connection attempt (or use Gibson), then Save the debug file. It produces a zip file and inside there are two pcap files: lan.pcap and wan.pcap. I use Wireshark to open them. On the LAN capture, there should be a packet from the internet directed to the Minecraft Server as well as a packet from the Minecraft server closing the connection.
If packets get to the Minecraft server computer, then I think it is not the router.
Articles on the web seem to indicate that setting up a Minecraft server is "so easy." Doesn't look so easy to me.
- Is the MInecraft server actually listening on port 25565?
