PortFWD Broken

Started by lmnsour, August 01, 2025, 05:18:46 AM

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Background: Haven't messed with the configuration for over a year.  I setup port forwarding for steam ports for my desktop and it was working last I checked (over a year ago).  Again, I haven't messed with it since.


This week I cloned all the port forward rules to add a laptop.  My son was trying to connect with a friend but kept getting a connection error, so I checked to see if the ports were forwarding but alas, neither the laptop nor desktop are able to fwd any of the ports.


I've setup port forwarding rules in the Windows Firewall, enabled Allow Edge Traversal, I don't have antivirus (just Defender) on my Desktop and I have Avast on my laptop. 

I've checked and double checked all the port fwd rules, I have Reflection for port forwards Enabled and Automatic outbound NAT for Reflection Enabled.

The Interface is a LANBridge.

When you cloned the original rules does that mean there are now two rules for the same port but two different devices? I assume on WAN inbound? That doesn't work. You can only have one destination device for each port.
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Quote from: Patrick M. Hausen on August 01, 2025, 10:30:58 AMWhen you cloned the original rules does that mean there are now two rules for the same port but two different devices? I assume on WAN inbound? That doesn't work. You can only have one destination device for each port.

Yes. 

Begs the question, how do I enable port fwd'ing for multiple devices?  Should I just use the UPnP plugin?