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R7000 Port Forwarding Not Working
I'm trying to get a program called Fantasy Grounds working, and it requires port forwarding of port 1802. I've done this on the same ISP at other locations, and recently moved to a new place in the same city, same ISP. But now I have a R7000 Nighthawk router.
I set my PC to a static IP address, and also set a reservation for it in the router interface to make sure nothing else gained that address and causes a conflict. (192.168.1.78 is the address)
Then in the router interface (web), under Advanced > Advanced Setup > Port Forwarding / Port Triggering I setup a rule for a new custom service for Fantasy Grounds, setting the internal/external ports to 1802 pointing to the internal IP address 192.168.1.78.
Then I went to canyouseeme.org to test the port forwarding, and it times out.
My firmware version is: V1.0.9.34_10.2.36
Is there something I'm missing?
I found the solution on another forum. This is definitely a bug in the firmware.
There is a low threshold on the static IP address it will allow forwarding to. I was at .78 which was too high. I put my static IP to .10, and then pointed the rule to my new static IP and it worked.
To test this I put my static up to .101 and adjusted the rule. It failed again. I put it back to .10, and it worked again.
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is the program running when you use that website to check the port status? if the program is not running, that website will report the port as closed
microchip8 wrote:
is the program running when you use that website to check the port status? if the program is not running, that website will report the port as closed
No dice. Still not working.
did you punch a hole in the Windows/MacOS firewall?
