Unable to Port Forward on NETGEAR Router.

thomasjamesscott

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Oct 8, 2017
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I've been trying to Port forward on this NETGEAR D6300 Router with no luck. I've followed Port Forward guides on all the websites except everything shows up different for them in comparison to me when opening ports, say they will have about 8 things to fill in when opening a port where i only have 3. I'll include images of what I see vs what everyone else sees http://imgur.com/a/ULZZt

I would appreciate any help you have to offer, I've done as much as I can to open the Ports with what it gives me but I feel like it's not giving me all the options I need to actually open them? This Router was not provided by my ISP, so there should be no restrictions preventing Port Forwarding and they have no custom firmware installed on my router. My ISP also allows the hosting of servers so they would have no reason to want to block Port Forwarding.
I'm not sure whats going on so thanks for the help.
 
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BuddhaSkoota

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There is something off with this router; you can't port forward without specifying an internal IP address.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3538154/unable-port-forward-netgear-router.html

If you are unable to resolve this problem with the firmware, you'll have to go with a different option.

If you are port forwarding for a gaming console, you can assign a static IP address to the console and place that IP address in the DMZ of the D6300.

If for a PC, I'd recommend placing a better router in the DMZ of the D6300, and port forward from this router instead.
 
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