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Blitzcannon
Dec 21, 2017Aspirant
R6400 port forwarding help
I’m trying to portforwars to play Minecraft with friends but it doesn’t work I don’t know why. I literally entered in the port in the portforwarding tab and it doesn’t work. So I don’t know if there i...
- Dec 27, 2017
TheEther
Dec 22, 2017Guru
Click on the Advanced tab and look at the IP address under the Internet Port panel. That address must be a public IP address. If it's not, then there's another router upstream of the R6400. There could be a router in the modem or your ISP could be performing CGNAT. In either case, port forwarding won't work unless you can change the setup.
If you don't know whether the IP address is public or not, report back with the first half of the address.
If you don't know whether the IP address is public or not, report back with the first half of the address.