I have found the answer to my problem. It was more of just stumbling around in the dark until I tripped over the answer than any blinding flash of enlightenment on my part. From my first post you saw that I was following the instructions, as I understood them, for opening a port in my router, setting my IP address to a static setting, and setting my firewall(s) to allow the game to accept connections from the internet. I was using the command “cmd ipconfig” to get my IP address. This returned my IPv4 address as 192.168.2.105 and my Gateway address as 192.168.2.1. I tested my connections using PFPortChecker and canyouseeme.org. PFPortChecker showed an open port (47624) every time and canyouseeme.org showed an open port only part of the time. My friend on the internet could not connect to my computer at anytime. After 4 days of work on this, asking people all over the network, talking with my IPS technical people, and banging my head against the wall, I was ready to give up. Last night I was trying again to open the ports and clean the firewalls when I saw that canyouseeme.org was telling me that me that the IP address it was attempting using to check for an open port was 68.97.161.49. This address, as I understood, is the address of my IPS server. Out of sheer desperation I had my friend use that address to attempt to connect with the game. It worked with no problems.
The solution then, at least for me, is to use canyouseeme.org (open port check tool) and use the IP address that is listed as “Your IP: xx.xx.xxx.xx” and not the IP address that is returned by the cmd command in windows.
_________________ Huzzah,
Colonel Jerry D. White, USA
5th Brigade 'old unmovable'
1st Division
II Corps
Army of the Potomac
The simplest explanation is the best. - Occam's Razor
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Simplicity is not proof of truth.
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