Enabling Minecraft Port Forwarding
jjorgenson
Newbie ✭
Hello! I'm trying to enable port forwarding for 25565 on my SonicWall so we can host a Minecraft server. All of the required settings are a bit advanced from what I know. I have both TCP and UDP rules on 25565, and they're enabled, so I'm thinking it's something to do with my source/destination, included in the image below. Does anyone know what I should do?
Thanks in advance!
Category: Entry Level Firewalls
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Hi @JJORGENSON,
Thank you for visiting SonicWall Community.
The Source and Destination on the access rule should be Any and Public IP that you used to access the Minecraft server. Please change these and you could access the server from outside.
Kindly make sure the NAT policy is also changed with these info for server access from outside.
Regards
Saravanan V
Technical Support Advisor - Premier Services
Professional Services
Which destination option would best fit? There's all the options are confusing.
Thanks!
@JJORGENSON - Destination should contain the public IP used externally by your local server. Lets say, X1 WAN IP or any other WAN interface IP. Please share your private IP of the local server and public IP address assigned to the local server access from outside.
Regards
Saravanan V
Technical Support Advisor - Premier Services
Professional Services
Hi @JJORGENSON,
As requested on previous comment, please share your private IP of the local server and public IP address assigned to the local server access from outside. Also, share the screenshot of your firewall's Network Interfaces page.
I'll provide you the inbound NAT and WAN to LAN access rule look alike.
Regards
Saravanan V
Technical Support Advisor - Premier Services
Professional Services
Ah, I thought you meant I had to share it with some internal stuff, not here.
The private address I'm trying to host the server on is 192.168.0.173
Here's the Interface settings page under Network > Interface
Hi @JJORGENSON,
Thanks for the screenshot.
The inbound NAT and WAN to LAN access rule should look as referenced below.
NAT policy:
Source: Any
Translated Source: Original
Destination: X1 IP
Translated Destination: 192.168.0.173
Service: Minecraft TCP
Translated Service: Original
Inbound Interface: X1
Outbound Interface: Any
WAN to LAN access rule:
Action: Allow
Source Port: Any
Service: Minecraft TCP
Source: Any
Destination: X1 IP
These above config should be on the SonicWall. If still the access doesn't work, you may need to open up the minecraft port on the upstream ISP router/modem to the SonicWall's X1 IP address and this is because your ISP provided public IP address is terminated on the upstream router/modem whereas SonicWall's X1 IP is of private.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Saravanan V
Technical Support Advisor - Premier Services
Professional Services
Hey @jjorgenson,
I hope you are well.
Port forwarding simply allows network traffic to a specific server. It does not increase it. Have you confirmed on the Minecraft server that all network traffic is going to the right spot?
I wish my ISP alerted me for this type of stuff. They just cap my line!
Kind Regards,
@micah - SonicWall's Self-Service Sr. Manager
Hello, Micah, Thanks for all the help here. I was facing some issues while assigning IP addresses to the source & destinations. And your suggestions solved them.
A big thanks for your corporation. And thanks to jjorgenson too for starting this thread.
@jjorgenson and when you're done setting it up, check the info below, just in case you're not aware of it already:
--Michael@BWC