I am pretty sure uPNP is working on my router but just in case, I forwarded port 8444 to my farmer machine. You have to do this through your router’s web interface, my fiber router is from AT&T and its NAT page for port forwarding looks like this:
yeah, upnp usually causes more problems than it solves. why you would want software to “automatically” expose ports is beyond me. The reason any router worth it’s salt disables this by default is to prevent you exposing yourself to threats “inadvertently”
Did this recently too, after checking with some tool online. My farmer is behind 2 routers actually, so I had to set up forwards on both. Cable company router forwarding the port to my second wifi router, and then from there to the target machine. It changed how quickly and how many peers were connected and increased comms in the logs.
The lan ip is the internal address of the computer you have inside the network running the full node… i.e. 10.0.0.102 or 192.168.1.25, finding it depends on your OS… you may have a list of them in that Device drop-down where it might fill it in for you. the ports 8444:8444 is correct.
Does it let you submit without filling in Device? I thought it might be a list of your internal devices (i.e. your machine would be in it) to auto fill the lan ip.
yes, you can also “reserve” or set that internal ip in the router. useful if the machine turns off and when it comes back on it is not given a new ip but the same internal ip you have set the 8444 port to.
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interesting, how is this function called please? can’t find anything with ‘reserve’ in my router settings, shouldn’t it be done in the machine config not the router?
nice thanks, I just found it and assigned my mac address to the current IP, but for the port forwarding I’m facing a problem my router (Asus RT-n10) doesn’t seem to have port forwarding, I could find only port trigger function or virtual server… none of the seem to work… I also contacted my internet provider to open the 8444 port with the ip address but they said it’s my local address so it can be done only via router… should I tell them to open the port also for my public ip address?
I tried this already yesterday and it didn’t work that’s why I decided to contact them…now I also tried the Simple port forwarding program but it set it just like I did… the port just won’t open… I have a cable connection from the main router to switch and then to Pc can the switch be a problem? I don’t know what to do and my syncing is trash… few times a day it gets No sync then after an hour it is ok again… also tried to add the connection of the special nodes (introducers) but I could connect to only of them aw shit why they make it so complicated ?!?
