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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...
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.
Yeah, I want to delete that one because I figured out that that wasn't the problem...
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.Thanks for the blur info. I'm a newbie when it comes to that kinda stuff. I'm running a server on my internal pc address 192.168.0.22. I have actually never tried running a program while testing the port.
Just did so and it actually worked for once! Thank you very much! I've tried to get this to work for 3 days and the answer was so simple.... But thank you again!