No inbound connections(UDP/TCP) allowed.

[Webz]

Hey
Im trying to play a game (Dark souls 1) that requires out/in UDP connections, and I have some trouble receiving connections. I use comodo firewall and there is always listed around 20-40 UDP or TCP connections outgoing, but never any ingoing. Even when I disable Comodo Internet Security, I still dont get any connections ingoing.

Im not sure where the problem lies, is it my router or windows7?
Can someone clear the fog and help me for a bit?

btw windows firewall is off

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Inbound usually means you need port forwarding in the router.

You may have an issue if your ISP uses CG-NAT.

 

[Webz]

Thanks for reply
The thing is I've opened the required ports on my router for this game.
Is it common practice for ISP's to use CG-NAT? Guess i'll make a call tomorrow.
Do you have any other ideas of what could be hindering the connection?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Some do; some don't.

The way to tell is to check if the internet IP in the router's status is the same as the one reported by e.g. google.

 

[Webz]

It seems google shows the exact same ip as the one in router status (under WAN).
So now i just have to ask my ISP to open a range of ports for me to use freely, right?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Your ISP shouldn't need to do anything. You're not on a NATed connection.

Did you forward the ports to the correct IP?

 

[Webz]

Oh, I thought you meant i was under NAT connection when the ip was the same. Im not the brightest on networking.
I've forwarded my ports to this ip "10.*.*.**" (which is not my personal ip)
Do i need to forward them to the ip google shows? Like my personal ip?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

No; you need to forward them to the IP of your computer - if you open up the properties for the network adapter, it should be in there.

10.0.0.3 is possible, though it's kind of rare for that to be used in residential networks. Most manufacturers go for 192.168.x.x.

 

[Webz]

10.*.*.* is what i use to log into my router, so i guess its correct?
When i add a new port to my router, i get two boxes to add ip addresses onto, one that's WAN and the other Server IP adress.
Which ip is supposed to go where? Do i need to put an address in both?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

WAN would probably be 0.0.0.0; whatever means catch-all. If you put an IP, it might only let traffic from that IP in, which isn't what you want.

Server is your local machine.

 

[Webz]

I tried putting 0.0.0.0 but router said it was invalid, does this mean it only lets traffic in from a specific ip, like you mentioned?
I also tried different ip's under 10.0.0.*, but the ports are still closed according to "canyouseeme.org".

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Can you leave them blank?

 

[Webz]

Yes, that works. but still the ports are closed.
I havent rebooted the router once after doing all these changes, does it matter?
I saw on another forum someone with the same problem as me, they achieved success after a factory reset, then adding the ports again.
Ill try that and report back

 

[Webz]

Okey, i tried a factory reset, it didnt seem to do anything.
The strange thing is that i can open port 53 as i please, but none of the other i need. On canyouseeme.org i get "connection refused" on the other ports.

Here's a list of the ports:
53
88
3074
3478
3479
3658
5223


EDIT: Scatch that last post, it actually worked!
Thanks for all the help