[guide] port forwarding!!!

All The credit goes to: Innovative from the maple story section. (JUST REPOSTED IT CAUSE SOME OF THE GUNZ PEOPLE HERE ARE HAVING SOME TROUBLE WITH IT, AND THEY NEED TO STOP ASKING!!)


Okay, since I have been asked on countless occasions how to port forward I have decided to make a simple guide on how to port forward your basic router.

The following guide was made using a Buffalo router.

This will NOT tell your specifically how to port forward your model router but will give you the gist of the know how.

Lets get started.

Step One-
Create a shortcut to "cmd" on your desktop.
Open up the shortcut and you should see a black box. [dont panic, its nothing bad]

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Step Two-
In the black box, type the following "ipconfig" and note down your "Default Gateway" and "IP Address" under your "Ethernet Adapter"

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Step Three-
Open up Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera or any other internet browser you prefer and enter the following, "http://defaultgateway".
Where "defaultgateway" is the numbers of your default gateway you noted down earlier.
This should then give you a prompt for a username and password, if you have changed your routers username or password, by default it should be:
Username: root
Password: [blank]
or
Username: admin
Password: admin
or
Username: admin
Password: password or pass

If you have changed the credentials, enter them in.
If none of your logins work, you have a problem...

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Step Four-
You should have entered your routers main configuration page.
Now for the tricky part.
Scour around the settings and options and try and locate a link for:
Port Mapping
Port Forwarding
NAT or Network Address Translation
[If your router has other names for it, please post]

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ortmapping.jpg

Step Five-
After pressing the link you will be directed to a page with alot of boxes and numbers.
Again, scour around for boxes with a label "TCP" and "UDP" in these boxes enter the ports you want to forward.
If instead you are given two boxes asking you to state a Start and End port, in both boxes enter the same port if you don't to port forward a range. For example:

Code:

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  Start                      End
  8484                      8484

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Example with NO range.
or

Code:

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  Start                      End
  8484                      9000

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Example with range from 8484 to 9000.

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Step Six-
You will then be asked what your LAN IP address is, enter this in.
Usually it will already be entered and available as a radio button.
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Step Seven-
Press Ok and you should have port forwarded that particular port/s!

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Port Forwarding On a D-Link Router

Go to your router page following the steps above.
Press the "Advanced" tab and enter in the following information to port forward:

Code:

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Name: MapleStory Private Server 1
Private IP: [You LAN IP]
Protocol Type: Both
Private Port: [port you want to forward]
Public Port: [Same port as above]
Schedule: [Ticked]

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http://www.portforward.com/english/r.../DI-524UP3.jpg

If your router has other ways of port forwarding, or your have screenshots please feel free to post.
I will add more details after some sleep, hope this guide helps a few people.

nice :D
will help many noobs

good tut (Y)

;) np :P Should help yeah helped me too :)

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Originally Posted by DeathniteR

;) np :P Should help yeah helped me too :)

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LMAO :p Easy for me :D

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Originally Posted by eele

LMAO :p Easy for me :D

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For who not ^^ xD

My router isn't port forwardable

ROUTER: Siemens Gigaset SX552 WLAN dsl

this is an awesome tutorial, though I don't need to port-forward since I use a modem :P
10/10

if you have modem can you port forward i cant do from step 3 onwards? dosent show up the web thing it shows a page and tell me all my ips and stuff lol so does modem nid port forwarding

Didn't worked for me!

Nice noob-friendly tutorial but not everyone has the same router...

I got Siemens Gigaset SX552 WLAN dsl

Like 10 guys try'd to help my off my NAT but they failed

Even Wizkid tryed, our pro at computers.

my server keeps in:

State - SYN_RECV
What im doing wrong?

nobuddy know the problem?

I've never even seen it before