Port Forwarding For Dummies

[L0lz]

I got bored, and thought this tutorial could get through to a lot of people, and will help solve a bunch of stuff.(probably not)

Without further adieu, let us get started.

Step One- Getting Numbers.

1\. Open Start > Run
2\. Type CMD in the Run Window. A new Window will show up.
3\. In the new Window type ipconfig. A list of ips will show up.
4\. Copy down your IP, and Default Gateway.

Step Two– Getting into your Config

5\. Open an Internet Browser, and into the address bar, type in your Default Gateway.
6\. If a window shows and prompts you to enter your user and pass, do so. If you do not know the user and pass, by default it should be admin, password. If you still don't know, reset your router.

Step Three– Port Forwarding

7\. Once in your router's configuration/website, find a port forwarding option.
8\. Once there, create a new port forward.
9\. The name should be Eclipse, and the ports should be 4000 to 4000\. TCP/UDP(BOTH if TCP/UDP isn't an option).
10\. For the Server IP open up your Eclipse Server. Copy the IP at the top of the window, and use that IP.
11\. Once the form is filed, cilck apply or whatever the button is to confirm the port forward.

Fourth Step- Testing.

12.Once you have port forwarded exit out of your browser, and restart your server.
13.Open up your Client Folder, start your Client, click IP CONFIG, and replace the IP with the IP you copied in Step One.
14.Once done, try connecting to the server, if successful, you've completed the port forwarding process.

Extra Step - Having Issues?

1.If you find out that you cannot connect after you have port forwarded, try using ports 4001 or 4002\.

2.If you get an error while port forwarding the only thing I suggest, is restarting your router, or copy and pasting that error onto google.

If you are completley hopeless and are very noobish, post the error here, or MSN me at.. [email protected]

I hope a bunch of people find this usefull.

[Guest]

Nice tutorial; beats the one marsh made. More concrete steps rather than information. I like it.

[L0lz]

1 Post and 39 views?! XD, thanks for the thumbs up.

[Guest]

Lol, I saw it was getting a lot of views, and seeing that it was a pretty good tutorial, I felt I should post.
1 thing you should fix: I can't really read steps 2 and 3… the titles, i mean.

[L0lz]

Hope the re-color helps make the reading easier XD.

[Inunah]

Numbers five and six don't work on my computer. It brings up google when I do what 5 and 6 say.

[L0lz]

When you open up your internet browser, just type in your default gateway in the address bar at the top of the browser program. You should type something along the lines like 192.168.1.1 etc. Make sure it's the address bar and not the search bar. Just type in the default gateway, nothing else.

[Inunah]

Okay I got that to work finally (After six tries of copying and pasting the same IP seven times)

But when I port forwarded and fixed up a player client and sent it off to my beta tester it kept saying "the drive or network connection needed is unavailable" every time he tried to connect and he even commented that it needed a disk or a network resource. He says he's not using a vista, so it can't be the vista problem. Any help?

[kunbo]

how to u make a new portforward
sorry but im a newbie

[kunbo]

and plese some screen shots pleese

[frazon09]

ok after you successfully port forward it how do I share it???

[wolfgar]

ok i'm building a game and would like to host the game from my laptop computer to a few friends while until i can find a place to put the server part but i have absolutely no clue what to do on how to port forward or what to send to them to allow them to play it

[The Oracle]

@frazon09:

> ok after you successfully port forward it how do I share it???

just send them the game with the ip config information that you put in.

[misterdougie]

Very sweet tutorial :cheesy:

[naruto1289]

noobish question in the world. Dose port fowarding put the mmo in mmorpg in ur game?

also how do you test it? and how can I make a link for a download for my game.

[acordc]

This needs to be sticked help me alot TY

[GD]

Sorry About This, I'm A Total Noob At Port Forwarding,
Where The Hell Is This "Start" Button?

[gizmo1]

lol on your desktop, ok if you dont know that then you need to read a book called "Mircrosoft Windows XP" or whatever manual came with your computer

[riseofwar]

Yet another portforwarding guide, but this one is for dummies!

Lol, Good Job =)

[LukeFilewalker]

Nice tut this is really simple and dumbed down you accomplished your goal!

[lopaka311]

ok very new to this and this for dummies works right up tell the router part for me I type in my info in the bar then admin/pass doesn't work so I reset router like you say and still nothing  :icon_crap:

[Conan]

I got one question, when it's with putting the client onto the internet. So i went to filefront and uploaded the client folder(after i copyed it) and then, when my friend downloaded it, it says it cannot read GXF files, and some other files, why is this? Idk if it's just because he has vista, but someone please help!

[wertyuzx]

I followed all the steps but my friend still can't connect to my server, why could this be?

[Galacta-Knight]

Is it possible to host a game w/out a router. I just use a wireless card.

[Guest]

when i type in my default gateway in on the internet nothing comes up it says broken link