Right now I have the server running under a hamachi connection (lame) and the clan size has grow to surpass the limit that sets on us. For a while, I have been trying to make the clan server wired and the router ports open but heres where it gets complicated.
I have a Server computer running windows, that hopefully will be running Linux before the New Year. I have a Modem that has an Airport Extreme connected to it that connects several other apple devices around the house. I could just portforward the Airport, but my dad doesn't want any open ports on the network that are not plug n' play. So basically, I can't use that one. So now I'm left with the cord that comes out of the modem and a spare Netgear router. I need to somehow properly split the wire from the modem to the Netgear router and my dads Airport, so we have two networks but they're not connected to each other in anyway (Because I already know I can expand the network or create a new one by plugging in the Netgear to the Airport, but then I would still have to open a port on the Airport...exactly why I'm not plugging the server into the Airport in the first place...) ...and I don't really think that's possible but I'm going to post around a bit. If it's not, I'll just have to keep convincing my dad opening a port isn't going to do much as long as it's for minecraft and no other program is using the port.
Clan server page is found in the signature.
ANY advice or comments are welcome, I just want this thing off hamachi so I can tell people I play minecraft SMP.
If the netgear router has multiple ports could you not use that to split the connection between the router and the airport. Once that is done, it maybe possible that the netgear router could be used to then redirect the traffic only down the port that the server is connected to...
now forgive me if I am wrong, but what I see of your current set-up there currently isn't a router or firewall in play and so unless the airport itself is doing that job, you don't actually have any port filtering place to begin with...
That's actually a pretty good idea, accept my dad's not quite willing to plug the Airport into the netgear, regardless of the ports. He already has the Airport set up (even screwed) into the wall so he can feed several things in and out of that. And yes, the Airport is doing the job as a firewall. Airports have a firewall built using both software and hardware. It's filtering the ports. I tried opening a port on the Airport using portmap but it didn't quite work....I would need to use the actual Airport utility to open the port.
But I can't do that because it will still be opening a port through a Airport, and he won't let me do that.
He doesn't want me to touch any connections he's running right now. I can only touch the wire from the modem to the Airport router.It's like an annoying riddle that has a simple solution you just can't quite figure it out....
I have a Server computer running windows, that hopefully will be running Linux before the New Year. I have a Modem that has an Airport Extreme connected to it that connects several other apple devices around the house. I could just portforward the Airport, but my dad doesn't want any open ports on the network that are not plug n' play. So basically, I can't use that one. So now I'm left with the cord that comes out of the modem and a spare Netgear router. I need to somehow properly split the wire from the modem to the Netgear router and my dads Airport, so we have two networks but they're not connected to each other in anyway (Because I already know I can expand the network or create a new one by plugging in the Netgear to the Airport, but then I would still have to open a port on the Airport...exactly why I'm not plugging the server into the Airport in the first place...) ...and I don't really think that's possible but I'm going to post around a bit. If it's not, I'll just have to keep convincing my dad opening a port isn't going to do much as long as it's for minecraft and no other program is using the port.
Clan server page is found in the signature.
ANY advice or comments are welcome, I just want this thing off hamachi so I can tell people I play minecraft SMP.
That's actually a pretty good idea, accept my dad's not quite willing to plug the Airport into the netgear, regardless of the ports. He already has the Airport set up (even screwed) into the wall so he can feed several things in and out of that. And yes, the Airport is doing the job as a firewall. Airports have a firewall built using both software and hardware. It's filtering the ports. I tried opening a port on the Airport using portmap but it didn't quite work....I would need to use the actual Airport utility to open the port.
But I can't do that because it will still be opening a port through a Airport, and he won't let me do that.
He doesn't want me to touch any connections he's running right now. I can only touch the wire from the modem to the Airport router.It's like an annoying riddle that has a simple solution you just can't quite figure it out....