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how to port forward with an at&t router
Nix the Glaceon:
wait if I want people to join the gmod server, will they have to put in "connect [local ip]"
Nal:
--- Quote from: Nix the Glaceon on May 16, 2017, 05:11:37 PM ---wait if I want people to join the gmod server, will they have to put in "connect [local ip]"
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they put in connect and whatever the ip address google gives you when you search "ip"
not the 192.168.x.x thing
Remurr:
--- Quote from: otto-san on May 16, 2017, 05:07:06 PM ---(to my understanding) you're telling the gateway to direct external traffic on a given port to a specific address in the internal network. it doesn't matter what address you have on the external network; your local address is how your router directs traffic, regardless of its origin, to your device.
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this is correct. in the port forwarding menu, you're telling the router which IP on your internal network will have the server running. If this is your main computer and not some other server, then it's the ip you get from running ipconfig in the command prompt.
once someone connects to your external IP (your public one that says where you are in the world) for your server, it'll direct their traffic to your router, which will check the port forwarding schedule and send it to whatever subnet IP address you specified. Mine, for example, is always going to be 10.0.0.14, while my public IP changes all the time because I use a VPN. I always port forward to 10.0.0.14 because that's where my router knows my computer is in my home network (static IP assignment), but this IP should be different for you :p
Becquerel:
--- Quote from: Nal on May 16, 2017, 05:12:16 PM ---they put in connect and whatever the ip address google gives you when you search "ip"
not the 192.168.x.x thing
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this
the 192.168.x.x is your side of the router
whatever ip is shown when you google "what is my ip" or something like that is your external
the external ip is how other computers outside your lan network find you, and the address will belong to your router
then the router will forward the data to your local ip which is in the 192.168.x.x range
basically
external -> router -FORWARD> local ip
Nix the Glaceon:
ok thankse