Cf tunneling for minecraft

[slow tulip]

Hello can someone help me with cf tunneling for minecraft? Right now I have this setup and it doesn't seem to work

[placid marlin]

You wouldn't put your public IP address there but regardless with Cloudflare Tunnels, the client/player who wants to connect needs to install and run the cloudflared software with this setup in order to connect. Does that work for what you're trying to do?

?tunnel-tcp

[hard sable]

Cloudflare Tunnels use Cloudflare's proxy, which only supports proxying HTTP Traffic. If you want to use non-http applications over your tunnel, Cloudflare has a few other options:

For a few specific protocols such as SSH, RDP, and SMB, Cloudflare has guides for them here:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/applications/non-http/

For Arbitrary TCP like Minecraft, MySQL, and any other tcp application, Cloudflare has a guide here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/applications/non-http/arbitrary-tcp/

For Arbitrary UDP like Minecraft Bedrock, SMTP, and any other udp application, you will need to use Private Networking with WARP: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-apps/private-net/connect-private-networks/

Please note for all of these except SSH and VNC which can be browser-rendered, you will either need to use cloudflared (Cloudflare's tunnel daemon) on the client machine running in the background or Private Networking with WARP, and have WARP installed on the client machine logged into your Zero Trust Team.

[slow tulip]

Wdym like everyone would have to download the cf tunnel software client side?

[placid marlin]

Yes and run cloudflare access.. as per https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/applications/non-http/cloudflared-authentication/arbitrary-tcp/#1-install-the-cloudflare-daemon-on-the-client-machine

[slow tulip]

Is there a option to not use that

Like to make it so its only server side

[placid marlin]

In order for that to work, Cloudflare would have to assign your tunnel a unique IP (expensive) to know where the incoming connection is going to (or specifically handle minecraft connections like they do http connections and parse them apart).

Cloudflared/WARP provides the bit of extra info for them to understand where the connection is going

Cloudflare does have a product for proxying/protecting anything, called Cloudflare Spectrum, but it's expensive and the integration with tunnels is Enterprise only

so, Cloudflare can't help you with that. People have talked before about alternatives like playit.gg with the same tunnel/no portforwarding required setup but not cloudflare owned/haven't tried it myself

[slow tulip]

Yeah I heard about that but idk if it provides support

Support as in like protection