udp connections and private ip addresses

ChebbyShabby · Post by **ChebbyShabby** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:01 pm

when using tcp, i can connect fine using the ip address from http://www.whatismyip.com. however, when i switch to udp, only private ip addresses work (in my case, 192.168.xxx.xxx). how do i fix this?

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:16 pm

Are you behind a firewall? If so, perhaps you need to do port forwarding?

http://www.xs4all.nl/~bluez/datatalk/pu ... forwarding

ChebbyShabby · Post by **ChebbyShabby** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:18 pm

blueznl wrote:Are you behind a firewall? If so, perhaps you need to do port forwarding?

http://www.xs4all.nl/~bluez/datatalk/pu ... forwarding

all firewalls are down and yeah i have port forwarding activated in the router's settings. i'm just curious as to why it works when using TCP but not when using UDP.

LuCiFeR[SD] · Post by **LuCiFeR[SD]** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:43 pm

because you probably forgot to set TCP+UDP in the NAT port forwarding setting

ChebbyShabby · Post by **ChebbyShabby** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:07 pm

LuCiFeR[SD] wrote:because you probably forgot to set TCP+UDP in the NAT port forwarding setting

whoops

... thanks for that.

LuCiFeR[SD] · Post by **LuCiFeR[SD]** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:26 pm

no problem... glad I could help