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Port Forwarding Doesn't Work

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January 22, 2014 7:57:49 AM

I have spent 4 hours trying to open a specific port for my router (Belkin F7D5301 v1).

I'm trying to open Port 25000.


I've also tried


I have also allowed it under Windows Firewall. I have also tried with my Windows Firewall off, with my router firewall off, and with excluding myself locally from my Router firewall.

My router is hooked up directly to the modem, and I am plugged directly into the router.

I tried ipconfig and my local IPv4 IP is 192.168.2.2, so I am forwarding to the correct ip in my router control panel.


After all this work, it still says the port is closed on every port testing website from my external/public IP:25000.

I also factory reset my router and tried again, still doesn't work. I tried other ports as well, like the ports for Minecraft when I used to run a Minecraft server. I cannot open those anymore either, others can't connect, and websites report the port is closed on my external ip:25000.

On Windows 8.

Any ideas?

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January 22, 2014 8:16:01 AM

if its something like a minecraft server where other people are connecting they have to type in your Public IP http://www.whatismyip.com/
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January 22, 2014 9:05:14 AM

What you've done there is open port 25003 on your computer. You've basically said, anyone connecting from the internet to your public IP on port 25000, will be forwarded to your internal device which uses port 25003 for it's application.

Provided the application uses port 25003, and whoever wants to connect to that server, launches its request on port 25000 it will work. So unless you have changed the application to actually listen on port 25003 instead of port 25000 (easier said than done most of the time), it will get black-holed. Best thing to do for the sake of testing, is not mess around with the port's the application that it's using, and leave both the inbound port and private port to 25000.
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January 22, 2014 12:26:36 PM

MurrayA said:
if its something like a minecraft server where other people are connecting they have to type in your Public IP http://www.whatismyip.com/


"After all this work, it still says the port is closed on every port testing website from my external/public IP:25000."


sg4rb0 said:
What you've done there is open port 25003 on your computer. You've basically said, anyone connecting from the internet to your public IP on port 25000, will be forwarded to your internal device which uses port 25003 for it's application.

Provided the application uses port 25003, and whoever wants to connect to that server, launches its request on port 25000 it will work. So unless you have changed the application to actually listen on port 25003 instead of port 25000 (easier said than done most of the time), it will get black-holed. Best thing to do for the sake of testing, is not mess around with the port's the application that it's using, and leave both the inbound port and private port to 25000.


I've also tried 25000/25000. I decided to do 25003 because the particular game I'm trying to port forward for has guides saying to do 25003 instead. The game is called 7 Days To Die.

25003 is still closed, as is 25000 when I try it either way. I'm beginning to think I have a major Windows issue on my hands, or my router is junk.
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January 22, 2014 12:36:19 PM

I have tried another port tester, and it is telling me that 25000 is open on TCP, but it's being "Filtered"



"filtered:
A port is marked as "filtered" when the packets are sent to that port, however packet filtering (e.g., firewall) prevents the packets from reaching that port."



There are exceptions in my Windows firewall for this port, AND my Router Firewall is off. This makes no sense.

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