This seems the only place to put this seeing as it isn't really LCPDFR related.

Right. I'm trying to port forward to get a Minecraft server working. The port in question is 25565 and the router is a Netgear FWG114P. I''ve port forwarded many times before for stuff like Steam and utorrent. So I port forward this one like normal. I have troubles but somehow fix them and the port is open. That was yesterday. Today I come back and the port is closed again. No-one's touched anything and all the rules and services are still in place.

Anyone have any experience with this?

did you 1) save it 2) open your firewall up for it, and 3) mark it right?

did you 1) save it 2) open your firewall up for it, and 3) mark it right?

Strange, I never got anything saying I had a reply.

And I did save it, which is why it was still there and still is now.

I've added it to the firewall exceptations though I'll double check that I've added everything there.

By mark it you mean mark the right ip/allow or disallow? Becuase I've checked that.

Just out of curiosity and sanity sake, you -do- have the application running right? Cause keep in mind a lot of local firewalls toggle a ports open/closed state based on if an application is actually listening at the time. :P

Maybe the port it out of its allowed range? I dunno, i never used Netgear

I have tried with the app on and off. And I got no idea Asuna.

Though I've seen somewhere that turning windows firewall on somehow suddenly made it work. So I'll allow it through windows firewall and try that.

If you have a local firewall already (Eg; Comodo), don't use any other firewalls, having multiple ones can cause issues like this. If you do have a local firewall that isn't Windows Firewall, then make sure you have Windows Firewall off completely.

Windows was off completely before as Norton ( ) disabled it. So I turned norton off and enabled windows firewall. Did nothing.

Though I've noticed that according to a port checker, my local ip has changed? from 192.168.0.3 to 192.168.0.6 . So I've changed that and I'm about to find out the results.

An online port checker can't see or check LAN IP's, so not sure why one would possibly tell you that was your active IP. Use the IP from a site like whatismyip.com, to scan your ports using an online scanner.

It's a downloaded one. I changed the IP in my port fowarding settings to the one the downloaded checker said and now it's working :D

Yeah I'm not really sure at the use of that, when you're checking ports locally, you're likely going to see them open regardless as most firewalls grant access to IP's on the same LAN.

What you want to do is use one like this which actually checks externally that your ports are validly open;

http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/

Ah right. Thanks.