Hosting a Server on Bridged Internet Connection (Cannot Port Forward)

[Adam B]

Hello,

I have recently built a new gaming rig, minus a network adapter.

I have been bridging my connection through my laptop with an Ethernet cable in order to get a connection.

I am hosting a game server on my rig, but the problem? I cannot port forward to my rig because it is not directly connected to my router. (It has no LAN IPv4 address to port forward to!)

I have tried running the server off of my laptop, but the old thing just can't handle it.

Is there a way to remedy this, or is my only option to buy a wireless adapter, or directly connect to my router with Ethernet? (Both not immediately possible).


Thank you very much,

Adam B

 

[ss202sl]

It has to be on the network.

 

[bill001g]

How did you manage to hook the gaming machine to the laptop...USB cable or something? If you can attach it with a ethernet cable then you have a network card in the machine and should be able to directly cable it to the router. Now if what you are doing is using ICS or something to share your laptops wireless card then that is a restriction with ICS. You would have to do the port forwarding inside your laptop since it is acting as a router. I do not think you can do it but I suppose you dig around on the microsoft site to see.

Using your laptop as a makeshift wireless card especially for something like a gaming server is not the best idea. Even in the best circumstances if you are not very careful what software you run you can disrupt the data flow. In effect you have made your laptop into a $20 wireless adapters.

Since your gaming machine is meant to be a server I would relocate it close to the router and use a ethernet cable. Wireless is bad idea even for single game client machine running a server likely would not work real well.