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Colorman
Sep 29, 2017Aspirant
Port Forwarding not working
First of all, information. Router model: CG3700EMR. Firmware Version: V2.01.03 The model isn't on this website for some reason, but I found somewhere that the CG3700 is very similar to the CG32...
- Sep 29, 2017
You've published your public IP address, and obscured your (harmless)
private address. You're keeping the wrong address secret, which helps
no one.
> [...] multiple ports forwards (one for TCP and one for UDP) [...]
That was a waste of effort. One rule can do both.
> The port stays closed no matter what I do [...]
Are you running a server at 192.168.blur.blur which is listening on
port 25565? What is the server at 192.168.blur.blur?
In my experience, people who talk about opening ports often don't
understand the problem. For a port to appear to be "open", there must
be a program on the target system which is listening at that port. If
you're not running such a program, then all the port forwarding in the
world won't help.
Colorman
Sep 29, 2017Aspirant
My reply got deleted? Well, here it is again. I'm sorry I accidentally posted every picture twice. And if anyone knows how to delete/edit previous posts, can you please tell me?