Please help me forward my ports

As you can see on the screenshots, I opened the port 25565 and forwarded it to my PC's local IP. After this I get my IP from whatismyIP websites, gave it to my friend etc but when they try to connect through it, nothing shows up on the server logs.
What am I missing please ?

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7/28/24, 1:47 AM

Uunecomplette As you can see on the screenshots, I opened the port 25565 and forwarded it to m...

Pweppapig•7/28/24, 4:49 AM

What ISP do you use? Check if you're behind a CGNAT

Pweppapig•7/28/24, 4:49 AM

!cgnat

Carl-bot•7/28/24, 4:49 AM

We may have bad news for you :C

Open your router's configuration interface. Somewhere you'll see something like 'external' or 'public' IP.
If your external IP is in one of the following ranges, you're basically screwed as long as portforwards go:

10.0.0.0/8
172.16.0.0/20
192.168.0.0/16
100.64.0.0/10
any IPv6 address/range - This shouldn't be a problem, but Minecraft's IPv6 support is still rather quirky. You're at your own but we're happy if you share your experience.

You should ask your ISP for a public and IPv4 address (but this may cost you money).
NB: your internal IP should and most probably will be in one of the first three ranges, don't mix them up

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Pweppapig•7/28/24, 4:52 AM

If yes then you can do two things.
(1) Use an IPv6 address
(2) Buy a small server and use wireguard to route all traffic through it (Will affect latency as all traffic will go to the VPS first and then to the computer at your house)
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unecompletteOP•7/28/24, 4:57 AM

I figured out I have cg-nat

unecompletteOP•7/28/24, 4:58 AM

I'll try using IPv6 haha, thanks