Question about Port Forwarding to several IP addresses without using proxies.
Question about Port Forwarding to several IP addresses without using proxies.
In a motherboard with only one Ethernet port, could that port be divided without employing a Proxy?
Considering the scenario of a game server or Minecraft setup:
- Display PC's IPV4 address on a specific port (like 25565 or 25566) with authentication to restrict access (e.g., whitelist for Minecraft)
- Broadcast an IP so other networks can detect and connect (default is often 25565, but can be adjusted)
- Send player packets to the correct IP
- When hosting multiple Minecraft servers on a single PC, using server.properties to define set IPs
Assuming Server 1 receives from IP 1 and Server 2 from IP 2:
- Many routers allow multiple port-forwarding rules. A packet from Server 2 arriving at the PC would be directed to Server 2 because the IP matches its reference, not Server 1
- The limitation is likely due to the number of Ethernet ports available on the motherboard, or the presence of additional Ethernet capabilities beyond the main port
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I don't typically play games, but I'm checking if a free Radmin VPN might assist.
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I haven't created a Minecraft server yet, so I'm not aware of its restrictions.
Imagine you had two physical servers at home.
Your public IP would look like x.x.x.x and x.x.x.x
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If the port forwarding was configured correctly, it could direct traffic to both computers.
It's not possible to reuse the same port number, such as 25565, for two different internal devices.
Each public IP and each set of ports are unique.
Could you just assign both server instances to use the same public IP but different ports?
In a way, this is what your router makes it seem like the servers were directly connected.
You can change the secondary IP on the network interface, though it's been a while since I did that—I usually set up a completely different network.
In the worst scenario, you might try setting up a VM, but I haven't done that under a non-server version of Windows.
This post explains how to operate two Minecraft servers on a single IP address by utilizing two distinct ports.