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tiny zinc Sep 28, 2021, 7:12 PM

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verbal elk Sep 28, 2021, 7:12 PM

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Yes I can connect on the local network to either

tiny zinc Sep 28, 2021, 7:13 PM

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Ok. What does the port forwarding config in your router look like at this point?

verbal elk Sep 28, 2021, 7:16 PM

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Good question. I am afraid I am a graphics person not a network person. You may have to spell it out on crayon for me. I know I need an IP address to access the router to see what the settings are. I did it a million years ago when I set the thing up.

tiny zinc Sep 28, 2021, 7:18 PM

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What's your local IP? The router's IP that you would connect to in your browser is probably the same, except that the last group of numbers (after the third . is 1 instead).

Off-hand, 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.0.1 are the most common router IPs

verbal elk Sep 28, 2021, 7:41 PM

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So i got into the router, and it is having me do a firmware update. assuming the thing doesnt blow up on me now. What and I looking for next?

tiny zinc Sep 28, 2021, 7:44 PM

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Somewhere in there you should have a menu for Port Forwarding or Virtual Servers, that's where you want to set up port forwarding, forwarding port 30000 to your host machine's local IP (whichever one you want to use as the server.

Ideally, you'll also set up a DHCP reservation so that it always assigns the same IP to the same machine, to avoid that changing when you're not looking

verbal elk Sep 28, 2021, 7:44 PM

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Alrighty, let me tinker and see what I can come up with. Seriously feeling old today.

tiny zinc Sep 28, 2021, 7:48 PM

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This article has some general info on the process: https://foundryvtt.com/article/port-forwarding/

Also, no reason to "feel old", this isn't the sort of thing most people do much at all, it's not the kind of thing I expect the average person to know off-hand

verbal elk Sep 28, 2021, 8:40 PM

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Hey I got it working. thank you so much for your help

tiny zinc Sep 28, 2021, 8:40 PM

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Happy to help

verbal elk Sep 28, 2021, 11:09 PM

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one more quick question..the only way i can make it work is to drop my firewall. I am on a Mac and I cannot find a work around. any thoughts?

tiny zinc Sep 28, 2021, 11:10 PM

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It's possible to fix the firewall rules on a Mac to let Foundry through. However, I don't personally know how.

I think I remember seeing @sour estuary and/or @blazing ether having a clue about doing that, unless I'm remembering wrong.

sour estuary Sep 28, 2021, 11:13 PM

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Ehhhh honestly I’d just turn it off. If it doesn’t work out of the box with just allowing the app in the firewall settings, it probably isn’t worth whatever nightmare rabbit warren you’re going to need to stumble around in for days just to make it work.

blazing ether Sep 28, 2021, 11:50 PM

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sudo sh -c 'echo "pass in inet proto tcp from any to any port 30000 no state" >> /etc/pf.conf'
sudo pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf
sudo pfctl -E```

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should let you through on the most recent mac OS

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