Port Forwarding w/ Ethernet

[Jacob Canale]

Ok, so me and my friends got bored and decided to take a trip down memory  lane by playing some modded minecraft. I am running the server, but normally I do it on Wi-Fi. I understand that with wifi you need a static ip and then you can port forward, but how does port forwarding work with Ethernet?

 

[Enderman]

Exactly the same way...

[Leonard]

You can do it that way with ethernet too or you can use the IP address you have at the moment and just change it when your IP changes for whatever reason.

[Jacob Canale]

Just now, Leonard said:

You can do it that way with ethernet too or you can use the IP address you have at the moment and just change it when your IP changes for whatever reason.

when i tried to create a static ip address it came up with some error

[Leonard]

Just now, Jacob Canale said:

when i tried to create a static ip address it came up with some error

The static IP has to be the same as on the host PC, so if you are connected through some other PC then that IP is the one you need to use if your PC is the host then you use your current IP. By host i mean of the network and not the game, also i assuem you know that you will need the ports both TCP&UDP as well as set up port triggering.