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All of the public ip addresses on my network are the same so I cannot connect to some devices.... HELP (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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so I am trying to make it so my friends can connect to my minecraft server. So I look up my public ip address and type it in. It does not work. I proceed to port forward and try again, nothing. I look up the public ip address on a different device on my network and it is the same as the server. How could I find a device specific ip address so that my friends could join if all of the public ip addresses are the same?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

When you say "I proceed to port forward", can you describe what you are doing and on what device? Your router needs to have port forwarding set on it, so you forward a specific port to the internal IP of your server (open cmd prompt on your server and type 'ip config' and it will give you the internal IP, usually starting 192.168). If you want this external connection to work more than just the one time, then make sure the server has a reserved IP on your router too.