Players cant connect to my server

[Trouble]

Hello, i am having the same problem except my other computers on different routers can't connect to my server, only the computer with the server on it can connect to it. I am trying to get it setup to be public so people outside my LAN can connect. I have been working on this for the past month and i can't seem to figure it out, so if anyone knows why or has any suggestions that would be great, thanks in advance.

[trevius]

There aren't too many things that would block outside players from connecting. Make sure you have ports 9000, 7000-7100 and 5998 all Port Range forwarded on your router to point to the server you IP you are running (192.168.1.100 or something like that). The other common reason is if you set this part of the config, which you shouldn't be setting:

<!-- Only specify these two if you really think you need to. (read: You don't) -->
<address>some.server.com</address>
<localaddress>192.168.0.1</localaddress>

Remove that section of the config from your config file if you aren't sure about how to comment it out. But, to comment it out, you would just need to make sure it looks like this:

<!-- Only specify these two if you really think you need to. (read: You don't) -->
<!-- <address>some.server.com</address> -->
<!-- <localaddress>192.168.0.1</localaddress> -->

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You still might have to specify the addresses above if you have a strange setup, I have my world server behind a firewall then a router so it doesn't detect the appropriate IP's sometimes.

[Trouble]

i see well my setup is a bit different i have 4 routers and im going through 3, so setting up the port forwarding might be different, im not sure on how i can do that, if anyone has any suggestions or knows how to do it with 4 routers please let me know thank you.

[trevius]

Yeah, with 4 routers, I can see where you would run into issues lmao! You still wouldn't want to set those settings I mentioned in my last post though, leave those commented out as I mentioned.

What you do need to do is ensure that your ports are forwarded through all of the way to your server. Also, make sure you are using Port RANGE Forwarding, not just Port Forwarding as they are not the same thing and normal Port Forwarding will not work.

Basically, you need to figure out the path of the traffic from your internet to the server. If you have 4 routers in between there, then each router needs to have port range forwarding of the listed ports sent to the IP of the next router and so on until the last router that connects directly to your server has the ports set to go right to the server.

I am not sure what you would need 4 routers for, but if you are trying to run a server from a network that isn't 100% your own personal network all of the way to the modem (like a college campus/dorms, or a companies network), then it is very possible that they have a proxy set on their network. If so, then most proxies block most of the needed ports for EQEmu to work and you would either need to contact the network admins to get them to open the ports, or you would just be out of luck.

[Trouble]

ok thank you, i will try that sometime today right now im about to go to bed, and to answer your question as to why i have 4 routers, no im not on a campus or a company network its my home network, i have 12 computers on the network at all times whether there ethernet or wireless, we have one router for wireless networking and ethernet then the other 3 are just ethernet networking. But i do have a question. Do you have any idea how i can get the IP of my other 2 routers ( i currently have one of the ethernet ones forwarding to the router my computer goes through and then the one my computer goes through is forwarding to my computer IP ) what i need to do now by what you have said is get the IP of the other two routers and forward the ports to the router my computer is going through correct? So if you happen to know how i can get the other router ip's that'd be great, also do i have to forward anything from my cable modem?

Thanks for all your help.

[Trouble]

Sorry for double post, i forgot to mention only 2 of my router's ip's come up when i go to command prompt and do ipconfig /all (this is how i got the second routers ip)