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Port Forwarding for Minecraft

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  • 06-10-2011 10:18pm
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    taylorconor95
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    Im looking to make a minecraft server on my Mac (10.6.8), the server requires port 25565 to be forwarded. I have a ZyXEL P-660HW-T1 v3.

    So far I have gone into NAT, turned on port forwarding (I set both ports to 25565, and the server ip to the ip of my mac, 192.168.1.2, which is reserved). I turned firewall off, and restarted the router

    No joy. When I type in my IP into minecraft (my actual ip: 86.xx.xxx.xxx:25565) it wont connect...

    What am i doing wrong? - see screenshot for my router setup

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    PogMoThoin
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    Does 192.168.1.2:25565 work?


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    taylorconor95
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    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    Does 192.168.1.2:25565 work?

    Yes. Sorry I should have mentioned that it works fine


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    PogMoThoin
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    Did you forward both tcp and udp? You may have to make 2 separate rules, I'm not familiar with that router


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    taylorconor95
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    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    Did you forward both tcp and udp? You may have to make 2 separate rules, I'm not familiar with that router

    Dont think I have that option. Heres what list I get when I want to set up a new open port:

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    PogMoThoin
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    taylorconor95 wrote: »
    Dont think I have that option. Heres what list I get when I want to set up a new open port:

    It must be a terrible router if it doesn't give you tcp/udp options in portforwarding and makes you turn off the firewall to work. Cheapest POS they could supply. Try setting the default server to the router ip. Other than that try get your hands on a Netopia


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    taylorconor95
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    OK, problem solved:

    It turns out what I did actually forwarded the port, i just didnt know!

    Apparently when you are running a server in minecraft, you only type your network IP in as the server ip (192.168.xx.xx:25565), but everyone else uses your public ip eg(86.243.xx.xx:25565)


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    PogMoThoin
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    taylorconor95 wrote: »
    OK, problem solved:

    It turns out what I did actually forwarded the port, i just didnt know!

    Apparently when you are running a server in minecraft, you only type your network IP in as the server ip (192.168.xx.xx:25565), but everyone else uses your public ip eg(86.243.xx.xx:25565)

    Btw, what you were trying to do is called hairpin nat, some routers cope with it, others not. You're trying to get traffic to come back in the interface it went out. Your public ip address is on your dsl/internet port.


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