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Nighthawk R8000 - Port forwarding issues - Frustrated at so simple a task
Talk about wasting time for a simple task like Port forwarding: Goal: Establishing an External Accessable Minecraft Server Equipment: - MC Server : Mac Mini (running successfully) Firewall not ru...
SOLVED:
- One more piece of hardware that wasn't listed. Vonage Modem. The setup had it after the modem but before the router. This impacted the external IP address and more than likely caused the blocked port.
- Moved it behind the router and port is working now.
- Just need to finalize changing the Vonage settings, but that is secondary to getting the MC server running. :0
SOLVED:
- One more piece of hardware that wasn't listed. Vonage Modem. The setup had it after the modem but before the router. This impacted the external IP address and more than likely caused the blocked port.
- Moved it behind the router and port is working now.
- Just need to finalize changing the Vonage settings, but that is secondary to getting the MC server running. :0
The wheels on the bus go round and round.
Usually the vonage box is placed before router to resolve an inadequate upstream bandwidth, you might have to move it back and let it do the routing and use the r8000 in AP mode.