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Port Forwarding a Netgear r6400v2
Model: r6400v2 Firmware: Latest (1.0.4.106_10.0.80) OS: Windows 10 x64 Hey there. I've been picking away at this issue for a day and it's been pretty tiring. I hope I can find some help here. ...
Hey, thanks for answering, I appreciate it.
I have figured out the issue at this point; for some reason the port was forwarding correctly, but my firewall was blocking the request. I went ahead and tested a few things, including disabling my firewall, just to confirm that everything was going well. Seems to be working fine now.
When I say "My external IP address matches what's on my router, and I created an IP reservation for the desktop that runs the computer", I know you're just trying to confirm that I know what I'm talking about, and I appreciate the steps you take here to make sure that a user didn't miss anything simple. However, that wasn't the issue :p
For what it's worth, when I say "I've walked through the port forwarding steps", what I mean is that I set up the port correctly according to the netgear tech I was on the phone with. Give me some credit here, I was workin' on it for 12 hours. :P
When I say "my modem", and I'm talking about a separate router, I'm talking about the modem provided by my ISP (Charter Spectrum). You can assume that it's separate from the router considering I listed a separate router in the title of the post.
When I say "my firewall", it's Windows Defender Firewall. Useless gd program, lol.
For netstat, I used "netstat -a -n" and then read through the TCP/UDP addresses to see if there were any ports listening at those addresses. This is what led me to understand that my firewall was blocking requests.
As a lesson for future people having trouble port forwarding their routers:
1.) Check everything on the host computer that could potentially block the port, such as the firewall.
2.) If the Netgear tech tells you it's defective, it means they hit the end of their script. Try a few other things.
3.) Reply to this forum post if you'd like to receive any troubleshooting tips from me for setting up a Minecraft server. I went through hell and I won't let you go through it if I could help it.
Let me know if you have any further questions--nothing to do these days except chat about port forwarding on the Netgear community forums.
Qyooothank you very much for your sleuth work and write up. I have one follow-on question:
> ...for some reason the port was forwarding correctly, but my firewall was blocking the request.
Can you offer a micro-tutorial on how to tweak Windows Defender to stop blocking the reqeust? (I'm sure I can figure it out, but you've been down that path...)