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Aredjay
Nov 03, 2020Aspirant
Port forwarding on R6400v2
so today I was setting up a minecraft server and when i proceeded to port forward it i got this, down below. there is no way to change the external starting point or ending point and no way to set internal ones either, please help!
Aredjay wrote:
I do think this has something to do with firewall, most likely on the router.
That's just a guess at this point. I don't know about Armor, but the normal NAT firewall in your router won't interfere with the forwarding. Does your router support Armor? If so, did you enable it?
Also, what device is in front of your Netgear router? If it is a gateway, you might also need to add a forwarding rule there (forwarding the port to the Netgear router). If you aren't sure what it is, post the manufacturer and model here.
Other things to look at:
- See if he can "ping" your router using the DDNS name. https://www.hellotech.com/guide/for/how-to-do-a-ping-test-windows-10
- Did you confirm that that the forwarded port was open? There are several websites you can use for that - https://www.canyouseeme.org/ is one.
- Did you double-check that the forwarding destination is going to your minecraft server's local IP address
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I don't have this particular router, but I haven't had trouble with port forwarding on a wide range of Netgear routers.
The only field that appears grayed out is the internal port range, and that is simply because you checked the option to use external range internally.
What exactly can't you set? Have you entered something in the Service Name field?
What port(s) are you trying to forward?