Gwydion
November 11th, 2016, 15:55
So, didn't know where else to post this but thought I would share. When I first purchased fantasy grounds I had port forwarding issues. I have both a modem and a wireless router, so two things to worry about! Did I say I'm not really a tech guy at all? After taking my internet down for a weekend trying to figure it out myself, I had a technician come out and he got everything to work.
Recently I upgraded my internet and was able to figure out how to log into the new modem and set up a virtual server to forward port 1802 to my apple airport extreme wireless router (which is already set up to forward to my machine). All great! Until last night. As I was getting ready to run a session of Princes of the Apocalypse my players informed me they could not log on to my server. Strange. I ran my test and the dreaded "failure" blinked red back at me. I shut down my twitch stream so I could troubleshoot.
I kept thinking it must be something easy! After talking to some of my players who are tech guys, going to the command prompt and typing ipconfig to see what returned, etc. I had an epiphany. Everything seemed to be working fine, it just seemed the port was not getting forwarded to my computer. So, I logged into my modem and found the internal ip address I was forwarding port 1802 to. I knew it should be forwarding to the apple extreme router and then from the router to my machine. I logged into my airport extreme and found that the internal ip address of my airport extreme had changed by 1! Instead of xxx.xx.x.2 it was now xxx.x.x.3! I logged into my modem and deleted the port forward I had set up and changed it to .3. Crossing my fingers I ran my fg test and..................... immediate success!
I was able to get in a slightly shortened session after this. I learned a little about "leasing" and that sometimes the system might find another internal ip address. Now, next time I can check this first!
Thanks for all the technical folks who post here and have given me more confidence to research and troubleshoot some of these issues myself! Thanks to anyone who actually read all this too! :)
Recently I upgraded my internet and was able to figure out how to log into the new modem and set up a virtual server to forward port 1802 to my apple airport extreme wireless router (which is already set up to forward to my machine). All great! Until last night. As I was getting ready to run a session of Princes of the Apocalypse my players informed me they could not log on to my server. Strange. I ran my test and the dreaded "failure" blinked red back at me. I shut down my twitch stream so I could troubleshoot.
I kept thinking it must be something easy! After talking to some of my players who are tech guys, going to the command prompt and typing ipconfig to see what returned, etc. I had an epiphany. Everything seemed to be working fine, it just seemed the port was not getting forwarded to my computer. So, I logged into my modem and found the internal ip address I was forwarding port 1802 to. I knew it should be forwarding to the apple extreme router and then from the router to my machine. I logged into my airport extreme and found that the internal ip address of my airport extreme had changed by 1! Instead of xxx.xx.x.2 it was now xxx.x.x.3! I logged into my modem and deleted the port forward I had set up and changed it to .3. Crossing my fingers I ran my fg test and..................... immediate success!
I was able to get in a slightly shortened session after this. I learned a little about "leasing" and that sometimes the system might find another internal ip address. Now, next time I can check this first!
Thanks for all the technical folks who post here and have given me more confidence to research and troubleshoot some of these issues myself! Thanks to anyone who actually read all this too! :)