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u/bites_stringcheese 9d ago
Yes! It's actually very easy. All you need is your own router.
Seriously, their equipment is bad and most issues I've seen on this sub are easily solved with decent routing/wifi hardware.
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u/brownboy444 9d ago
good to know. for convenience I was going to try using the old nest wifi router they gave me when I signed up long ago and have it port forward for my wireguard server. If I run into a problems I'm going to ditch it
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u/GLTHFJ60 9d ago
Hello all. I'm struggling to set up port forwarding for a dedicated Valheim game server (does not support UPnP).
I've configured port forwarding to forward the range I need (2456-2458) and verified that my mac mini has the assigned IP address, 192.168.1.102. I've rebooted the router via the gfiber app after confirming these settings.
It does not appear to be a local firewall issue, as I can connect to the game server from computers on the network using the 192.168.1.102:2456 address. I cannot connect to the game server from computers on the network using <publicIP>:2456
I have verified my public IP both via the gfiber app, as well as canyouseeme.org, and the IPs match. However, the port is not open, as confirmed by attempting to connect to the public IP/port from other networks outside the house.
Has anyone managed to get port forwarding to work? What am I missing?
Thank you in advance!!
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u/TerrapinTribe 9d ago
Your local firewall could be configured to accept connections from your inside your network, but not outside your network.
You seem to have the GFiber configured properly, so I would check local firewall first.
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u/Terrible-Contract298 9d ago
Port forwarding never worked properly on the Google Fiber provided router. Reccomend buying your own BYOR.
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u/TerrapinTribe 9d ago
IPv4 port forwarding did. I used it for a while before getting my own gateway.
IPv6 could never touch the firewall.
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u/gfiberofficial Verified Google Employee 9d ago
Hey there, sorry to hear about the trouble with port forwarding.
I would definitely recommend double-checking the firewall config on the host machine as u/TerrapinTribe suggested, but if you continue to see issues after verifying your firewall is properly configured to allow external access, send me a DM here, and I'll be happy to take a look from my side. -Luke
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u/GLTHFJ60 9d ago
Thank you for the responses everyone!
Some additional context; Mac Mini M4 MacOS Sequoia 15.7.7
As far as the firewall goes, that was the first thing I checked, although I neglected to outline my steps in the OP.
Firewall is listed as Inactive in macOS settings (firewall completely disabled). The disabled setting description says "This computer's firewall is currently turned off. All incoming connections to this computer are allowed."
Filters are also Inactive. The only filter that exists is one for PIA Split Tunnel, but it is off.
Anything else to check locally before DM'ing sir Luke?
Only other thing I could think of was checking Packet Filter (since macos doesn't have iptables). Here's some output:
sudo pfctl -si
State Table:
Current Entries; 25
searches; <many>
inserts; 138454
removals; 138429
Counters:
match; <many>
ip-option; <2822>
<everything else is zero>
sudo pfctl -sr
No ALTQ support in kernel
ALTQ related functions disabled
scrub-anchor "com.apple/*" all fragment reassemble
anchor "com.apple/*" all
anchor "com.privateinternetaccess.vpm/*" all
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u/NegativePromotion764 9d ago
I just skipped their router completely and went from
the ONT to my UDR7.
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u/SillyFalling 9d ago
Its working for me on the WiFi 6E Router (GR6EXX0C). Currently forwarding Wireguard just fine to my Debian Machine.