Need help configuring chatserver for private server.
 

I recently built an EQEmu server from scratch. I have it on a vmware, I connect to it locally on a LAN and a friend connects from a different state. So far everything is working well except he can not join chat.

I have port forwarded 9000, 7000-7100 and 7778. The latter being in case it was needed for chat. Here are my ini settings.

<!-- Chatserver (channels) information. Defaults shown -->
<chatserver>
<host>192.168.254.75</host>
<port>7778</port>
</chatserver>

<!-- Mailserver (in-game mail) information. Defaults shown -->
<mailserver>
<host>192.168.254.75</host>
<port>7778</port>
</mailserver>

I don't need mailserver at all in case that can cause an issue. The server IP is static and even my Private IP from my internet provider is static. I am sure there is a simple step I am missing here. I know other people use dynamic DNS services but I shouldn't need that since everything on my end is static?

Chat server addresses need to be the wan address, not local address.

Thank you sir, that was the ticket.

EDIT: For those with the same problem, I also had to switch my local client to point to the WAN address as well.

Good times :)