Question about port forwarding

[RainGamma]

So, i got help on port forwarding and I just wanted to understand how this works.

what is the defaultport for and the UDPPort? What's the point of putting 16290

and this is what I did for the firewall
I think 16261 - 16280 means I have 18 player slots? Not really sure

then I did this for my router

Edited September 14, 2023 by RainGamma
forgot

[Beard]

I am not sure why you would change the UDP port to 16290 specifically, we do not recommend doing that anywhere in our official guides such as:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2682141370

And

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Dedicated_server

You can see in the screenshot you posted what the default values for those ports are, therefore I recommend keeping the 16261 and 16262 default ports as they are set, and only port forward those two ports with the UDP protocol.

[RainGamma]

9 minutes ago, Beard said:

I am not sure why you would change the UDP port to 16290 specifically, we do not recommend doing that anywhere in our official guides such as:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2682141370

And

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Dedicated_server

You can see in the screenshot you posted what the default values for those ports are, therefore I recommend keeping the 16261 and 16262 default ports as they are set, and only port forward those two ports with the UDP protocol.

It kept giving my friend a port closed error

[RainGamma]

This is fine right?

Just change this to 16262?

[RainGamma]

Just so I know does 16261-16280 mean you have 19 player slots?

Edited September 14, 2023 by RainGamma

[RainGamma]

For some reason my friend was getting port closed error even when I added 16261 and 16262, but maybe I messed something up

[Beard]

There are no port slots. You just need to open 16261 and 16262 on your firewall and router by default. All players go through those ports. I recommend creating one rule opening 16261 and a second rule opening 16262, since some routers can have issues with ranges in ports.

[RainGamma]

Just now, Beard said:

There are no port slots. You just need to open 16261 and 16262 on your firewall and router by default. All players go through those ports. I recommend creating one rule opening 16261 and a second rule opening 16262, since some routers can have issues with ranges in ports.

Okay thanks,
Do I need to add the steamUDP ports to my firewall too?

So instead of this I'll just put 16261 and then port forward 16262

For my firewall,

I put 16261 and then steamUDP

[RainGamma]

It should be like this right (IGD UDP is just automatic idk what it is)

[RainGamma]

Just now, RainGamma said:

It should be like this right (IGD UDP is just automatic idk what it is)

Then I need to just add 16261 to firewall and steamUDP and i should be fine right

 

[RainGamma]

one thing I dont understand is why I dont add 16262 to firewall

[Beard]

You should add both 16261 and 16262 to the firewall, since the ports need to be port forwarded through the router and allowed through the firewall, so they can then reach the server.

[RainGamma]

1 minute ago, Beard said:

You should add both 16261 and 16262 to the firewall, since the ports need to be port forwarded through the router and allowed through the firewall, so they can then reach the server.

Okay in this video, I should also add steam UDP or no?

 

[RainGamma]

 

This should all be correct now, right?

 

 

Edited September 14, 2023 by RainGamma

[RainGamma]

and also only put UDP 16262 and 16261 in inbound right?

Edited September 14, 2023 by RainGamma

[RainGamma]

then how would it look on my server config?
like this right:

# Default starting port for player data. If UDP, this is this one of two ports used.\nMinimum=0 Maximum=65535 Default=16261
DefaultPort=16261

# Minimum=0 Maximum=65535 Default=16262
UDPPort=16262

[RainGamma]

 

 

ok should be fine now, right?

Edited September 14, 2023 by RainGamma

[RainGamma]

For some reason now my friends cant join, they were playing and got kicked, and now it says "server not responding"

[RainGamma]

somehow after i made these changes it stopped working...

[RainGamma]

can someone please help me man

[RainGamma]

literally fixed it by reinstalling windows