[SOLVED] Port Forwarding

[Totte]

Hi!

I'm new to this and just installed Proxmox on my labserver to learn. However, I can't figure out port forwarding, coming from Virtualmin.
I've been all over Google and the forum and nothing seems to solve my problem.

I'm trying to forward 25565 for a Minecraft server which is running on a VM with Ubuntu server 20.04.

-The port is forwarded in my router.
-Still doesn't work if I use pve-firewall stop.
-I'm unable to reach the Minecraft-server locally as well (192.168.1.2)

Spontaneously it feels like I've missed some important step Connecting to the SSH works just fine however, as well as pinging the server (or the router from the server).

Any ideas?

 

[oguz]

hi,

let's start from here:

-I'm unable to reach the Minecraft-server locally as well (192.168.1.2)

if that doesn't work i find it unlikely that port forwarding will work

when you run ss -antlp inside the ubuntu VM what do you see? if your minecraft server is running then the port that it's listening on should show up here.

if it's in the list, i'd check firewall of the ubuntu VM (maybe you have another firewall installed inside the VM? like ufw or something might be blocking the port)

 

[Totte]

UFW is not installed, that I've already checked.




Okay, so I'm like THE most tired dad in the entire world right now. I've been trying to connect the Proxmox server IP and not the VM IP.
That changes so that it works over LAN... Still not visable to the internet tho.

 

[oguz]

That changes so that it works over LAN...

okay

Still not visable to the internet tho.

can you show the rule you added in your router for the port forward?

if you add a rule to forward that port to the IP of the VM, and also possibly allow the port on your router's firewall as well, then it should just work when you access via your public IP.

 

[Totte]

Okay, so when figuring out that I've been using the wrong IP all along, it came quite obvious that my router forwards where wrong as well. Pointing them to the VM's IP instead of the server, it's now working as intended. I guess it takes some time to figure out "how to think" when working with VM's rather than a "big server" with the same IP to everything..

Thanks for the help and teaching me that command (ss -antlp). That'll be quite handy. =D

 

[oguz]

Thanks for the help and teaching me that command (ss -antlp). That'll be quite handy. =D

glad the problem was solved and you're welcome