Port Forwarding: How does it work? (pawb.social)

submitted 1 month ago by trslim@pawb.social to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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I have been attempting to open a port to host an Arma 3 server but have been unable to. I have a logged into my router, and opened the ports, but they remain closed when I try to test the ports.

I have a rather unusual setup for my connection, I'll admit, where I use Ethernet, but its through a Powerline Ethernet Adapter. Could that be a problem with port forwarding?

I use an older router, a Motorola MT7700, I think, (Im not at home to check atm.) I run Linux Mint, it has no problems afaik.

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[-] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Perhaps your ISP doesn't support port forwarding? I could never get port forwarding to work on the crappy rural internet providers I used to be on.

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