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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 i...
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
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?
Im wondering how to even set it up, when my friend trys to join the server it doesnt work, with the local and public IP
Aredjay wrote:
Im wondering how to even set it up, when my friend trys to join the server it doesnt work, with the local and public IP
The service name is just descriptive - Minecraft should be fine.
The port for Minecraft is 25565.
The local IP address should of course be the local IP address of your minecraft server. Ideally you'd reserve that address -= see page 114 here for instructions on that: https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/R6400/R6400_UM_07Aug2015.pdf
Once you've done that, your friend would connect to your public IP address. The problem with that is that your ISP will change your public IP address w/o warning. So you should also register for a free DDNS account (see page 86 of the above reference). Then your friend would connect to the DDNS name, and the DDNS cloud service would resolve that name to your current public IP address.
Could you help me walk through that a bit more? Very confuzed!
like wich ip do i put in and wich mac address? for reserving, i also need some help with the other thing.
I really need help with this :/
Aredjay wrote:
I really need help with this :/
For the IP reservation, the simplest thing is to use the IP address the server is currently using. When you add a reservation, you should see a device list that includes the server. Just select it, and it should fill in the IP address and the MAC address for you.
For DDNS, you just follow the steps in the manual (page 86) to register and set up an netgear DDNS name. This will be something like adedjay.mynetgear.com (you get to pick the first part).