topic Re: Port Forwarding woes in Broadband & Landline

Port Forwarding woes

charliereddog — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 21:28:42 GMT

I've been trying unsuccessfully to open some ports that are required for a game from my PC. I've recently changed from BT Smarthub 5 to EE full fibre but the basic router functions are the same. I've added a rule for ports 2302-2303 internal and external, and set to UDP/TCP. I've selected the machine I'm playing on. When I check any port checking website, it says they're closed, and when I check ShieldsUP! it states everything is stealth.

I have even gone so far as disabling the router firewall and windows defender firewall, and the ports still show as closed on websites including on ShieldsUP!, although while the rest of the ports show as stealth, the two ports that have rules show as closed in this scenario.

I do have a DDNS entered on the router, could this be relevant? At this point I'm at a bit of a loss.

Re: Port Forwarding woes

XRaySpeX — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 22:38:14 GMT

@charliereddog : What type of server is meant to be running on these ports & is it up & running?

Can you test it w/out DDNS using its current public IP?

Re: Port Forwarding woes

charliereddog — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 22:40:16 GMT

Hi, it's not a server, but my desktop pc. It's just a couple of ports that need to be open to run ArmA3 if I'm hosting the game. I've tested using the DDNS and the IP, same results with both.

Re: Port Forwarding woes

XRaySpeX — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 22:47:37 GMT

Are you trying to connect to an ArmA3 game being hosted somewhere remotely or are you yourself running an ArmA3 game on your PC that you want remote others to connect to? The latter is a server.

Re: Port Forwarding woes

charliereddog — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 22:59:55 GMT

As I said above, I'm attempting to host.

Re: Port Forwarding woes

XRaySpeX — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 23:09:00 GMT

Ah, so you did. Then that's a server running on your PC. Post your Port Forwarding Settings.

Re: Port Forwarding woes

charliereddog — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 23:11:05 GMT

There is some conflicting info out as to which ports need to be open, hence why I'm doing the range to 2306.

Re: Port Forwarding woes

XRaySpeX — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 23:31:54 GMT

That looks OK

As a test can you try to connect to it internally from your LAN?

Re: Port Forwarding woes

charliereddog — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 23:31:30 GMT

Not sure how I'd do that? Do you mean connect to ArmA? If so, no as I don't have another device with it on.

Re: Port Forwarding woes

XRaySpeX — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 23:34:18 GMT

No, I mean connect to your hosted game from your PC as if you were a player connecting to it remotely.

Re: Port Forwarding woes

charliereddog — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:38:18 GMT

Ah, right. No, that's not possible, it's a client server, rather than a dedicated server.

Re: Port Forwarding woes

XRaySpeX — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:31:05 GMT

How would somebody outside connect to your game? Do the same but on your PC.