For UDP, you could forward to a subnet broadcast address. But that's really useless.Is there a way to forward ports to everyone ip on the local network? Or Do I have to add each ip separately.
Ok so....2 people on my network play the same game and require the same port forwarded. The router page gives me an error saying the port is already forwarded when I attempt to add the second pc's ip address.
Sooooo......? How was this overlooked?
Yup hosting games.
Wow....so is it possible to disable the need for port forwarding.
Game software on a PC using an Internet server shouldn't need port forwarding. Port Triggering may sometimes be needed, but normally neither are needed. The PC with the game initiates the (UDP or TCP) flow to the game server and the router is supposed to remember what PC initiated the flow and return packets to that PC. This is, if you will, NAT 101.Ok so....2 people on my network play the same game and require the same port forwarded. The router page gives me an error saying the port is already forwarded when I attempt to add the second pc's ip address.
Sooooo......? How was this overlooked?
The Netgear N900 router can forward the same port ie. 3074 for Xbox to multiple ip address. I have two xbox's 192.168.1.60 & 192.168.1.70, set them up with static IPs and then port forwarded those ports for open NAT on Xbox live. I came across this because lighting fried that router and I bought a ASUS RT-AC66R and it can't forward the same ports to multiple ip address which is very disappointing and might be going back to the store because of this.
This is simply technically impossible. If the Netgear allowed to setup one port forward to two different targets, then it was a bug, and only the first one actually worked.
i think technically it would be possible , since it would just send the same package to different ip addresses at same port.
The Netgear N900 router can forward the same port ie. 3074 for Xbox to multiple ip address. I have two xbox's 192.168.1.60 & 192.168.1.70, set them up with static IPs and then port forwarded those ports for open NAT on Xbox live. I came across this because lighting fried that router and I bought a ASUS RT-AC66R and it can't forward the same ports to multiple ip address which is very disappointing and might be going back to the store because of this.
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