portforwarding Port Forwarding help.

[hergix]

Hello, i actually have been trying to portforward a minecraft server a lot of times, i have it clear on my mind on how to portforward, but when i do theres just so many options and i get lost. my router : huawei EG8141A5 I need some help on how to portforward it the correct way, if anyone would like to help with teamviewer or anything id appreciate it. Thanks!

[Windows7ge]

I don't have your router but it's usually fairly simple.

1. Pick the IP of the server you want to forward requests to.
   1. Make sure you've reserved this IP so it doesn't change or get handed out twice.
2. Picking External port numbers
   1. You can pick a single port number or a range of port numbers for a single server. These will be the ports the router will accept requests on from the Internet.
3. Picking Internal port numbers.
   1. When your router takes in a request on a port you don't always have to use the same numbers on both the WAN and LAN. Depending on the service such as SSH I could have people connect on port 31000 but the router will forward that on port 22 if that's what I set the Internal port(s) to. The responding server does need to be configured to accept requests on said port though.
4. UDP, TCP, or Both
   1. This depends on the type of traffic being send/received for the service being employed. Minecraft setup guides should specify which you need.