- Mar 28, 2018
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So, I'm trying to port forward for a Minecraft server. Yeah, I know this has probably been asked a lot, but I feel like my situation is overly complicated. I'm decent with computers, not overly tech-savvy, but I feel like I figured a decent amount out.
I have a router-modem combo. The modem is a Linksys EA6900, and the router is a DLink DIR-815. I'm connecting to the settings pages for each using router IP 192.168.1.1, and modem IP 192.168.0.1. I believe these are the local IPs.
My PC has a static ID of 192.168.0.23, and the default gateway is 192.168.0.1. I'm connected by Ethernet cable to the DLink DIR-815 router.
I tried to port-forward my PC to 192.168.0.23+port 25565 in the router, and that worked just fine. Through a lot of googling, I found that I probably need to port-forward my IP in the modem too, so I tried that. It didn't work, so something is wrong. I tried port-forwarding to 192.168.0.23, but it told me that the IP is not in a valid subnet. More googling led me to find that I probably have a "double NAT", which would cause problems with gaming and opening single ports, but I'm not sure how to change that.
I read that I need to bridge my router, but I've no clue how to do that, either. I couldn't find any bridge setting in the D-Link options. I keep trying a whole bunch of stuff but I'm worried about messing up the network. I tried pinging my WAN IP but no matter what I do, it always responds negative. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.
I have a router-modem combo. The modem is a Linksys EA6900, and the router is a DLink DIR-815. I'm connecting to the settings pages for each using router IP 192.168.1.1, and modem IP 192.168.0.1. I believe these are the local IPs.
My PC has a static ID of 192.168.0.23, and the default gateway is 192.168.0.1. I'm connected by Ethernet cable to the DLink DIR-815 router.
I tried to port-forward my PC to 192.168.0.23+port 25565 in the router, and that worked just fine. Through a lot of googling, I found that I probably need to port-forward my IP in the modem too, so I tried that. It didn't work, so something is wrong. I tried port-forwarding to 192.168.0.23, but it told me that the IP is not in a valid subnet. More googling led me to find that I probably have a "double NAT", which would cause problems with gaming and opening single ports, but I'm not sure how to change that.
I read that I need to bridge my router, but I've no clue how to do that, either. I couldn't find any bridge setting in the D-Link options. I keep trying a whole bunch of stuff but I'm worried about messing up the network. I tried pinging my WAN IP but no matter what I do, it always responds negative. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.
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