Port Forwarding

[Ace]

Need some assistance with Port Forwarding my router as I've not done this before and don't want to mess anything up. I have the numbers I need to use, just don't understand where they need to go in my router settings.

Could someone explain to me where TCP Ports: 10308, 27015-27030, 27036-27037
UDP Ports: 4380, 10308, 27000-27031, 27036 need to go? And which IP's the internal and external hosts need to be.

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https://imgur.com/a/7w0HBlp

[Troll Norris]

Hi. Basically you don't need to forward any ports. Just make sure the UPnP in your router settings is enabled.

According to FAQ you need to open ports 10308 and 10309 on TCP and UDP
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/faq/server/#2778456

[Insônia]

Enable UPnP. if it works it works; if not. just move on. those things still give me headaches in my home and in organizations. So If UPnP did not give you any luck, ignore it. let's do it manually.

Some background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/faq/server/
First, Make sure your router's WAN ip is a public address, not private one. without a working public ip address nothing will work.

You only need 10308 and 10309 on TCP and UDP. the info you have found also include Valve's port is not necessary.

We don't need to care for the external host. because we are doing cone NAT here. no fancy postrouting.

Your internal port is exactly the same as the external port setting.
10308-10308, 10309 -10309 , UDP and TCP.
( You can change the "external port" to whatever you like, but we keep them all the same. make things simple.)

Your "internal host" is your server's local/lan IP address. Go to your server PC, then right-click the Ethernet icon and write the address down.

then make sure your server PC's windows firewall let DCS.exe pass or manually set 10308 and 10309 pass. both should work. or if you dont mind just disable the firewall all together.