Port Forwarding Explained

This is an animated port forwarding tutorial. It explains how to port forward and it also explains what are network ports.
#portforwarding #ports
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[@timgrh2050]

Hey I really like this video, but I have a question. I want to host my own minecraft server on my PC via port 25565. I've read about it, and it said that it could be dangerous. Is there any way to secure it?

[@brendan2240]

@@timgrh2050 Check out his video about a DMZ. Put your server outside of your actual home network

[@timgrh2050]

@@brendan2240 oh btw is it possible to port forward with ipv6?

[@Nhatanh0475]

wow it took you 3 year to find that router wifi.

[@johnnyblack4261]

What if two computers on the same network needed to use the HTTP protocol. When the router gets the IP address, and it has port 80 attached to it, how would it know which computer to send the information to?

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True

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[@angiemolina8372]

Totally agree... thank you so much!

[@13bennyhill]

Port forwarding explained in 9 mins. It’s been a mystery for 40 yrs. Great explanation.

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your explanation is unparalleled and very lucid....these 9-10 minutes of nuggets are knowledge bombs which are exploding in my brain :) thanks a lottttt for these videos

[@nghiaduy6044]

Love the fact that not only you explain the terms " Port Forwarding " , you actually take a step further and talk about what a port actually is , and not assuming that all people have already known about it ! Please continue with the good work !

[@thomasguo2250]

The best video about port forwarding. It put hard technical terms into simple worlds. Thank you for the wonderful video.

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Best explanation on port forwarding I've seen.

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Using the analogy of a phone switchboard is fantastic.

[@Gardner0871public]

I was about to make this comment. Yes this is a great analogy.

[@linuxphile9436]

I learnt more stuff about port forwarding in 9 mins than in my 3 hour class on port forwarding. You have a natural art of teaching well. I love your videos man. I can watch em all day long. Its just the way you teach it. Thank you for putting these informative and important stuff on YT and making them as simple as humanly possible!

[@nightraven836]

Helps that he explains everything as it works in-situ, and the practical effects of it, making it very understandable by connecting to base concepts we tend to already know.

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I always heard these terms (in your different courses) and you have made everything so simple. I feel like I know the internet and its corresponding pieces SO much better now!

[@aakashjana6225]

Well someone said "If you can't explain it to an 8 year old you probably don't understand it completely yourself". This explanation is probably that good. Loved it, wonderful analogy.

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[@gp5]

I’m taking a paid course and I’m wondering as to why the paid course can’t make it this easy to understand? Thank you for explaining!

[@proof150]

same here lol these vids are brilliant. my course im doing just has a guy talking for 20 mins at a time and im falling asleep

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[@karis7539]

gp5 same here but I don’t pay for it. We study linux/windows in school and we needed port forwarding for vnc to connect to the remote core desktop

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dude same!!! all these videos are maybe 5-7 min long and make it so simple to understand more than an entire semesters worth!!! my professors record themselves but when they talk they usually go down a rabbit hole smh and forget what they were talking about not to mention well at least my professors often talk like we got 25+ years of experience and knowledge under our belt like they do 🤦‍♂️

[@KennyRomes]

Best video on port forwarding I’ve come across. No annoying channel intro, no stupid music, no silly gimmicks or comedy routines. Simple and straight to the point. Well done my friend.

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Dude, for visual learners these videos are simply amazing. Thank you.

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It's one thing to have theory, but to see the purpose of all of the technical jargon we learn in Networking class demonstrated is a true blessing! Thank you for these videos.

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You are the best teacher here on KZbin. The way you simplified the things with explanation and animations make us more attentive to receive and grasp everything with immense interest. Thank you for taking time and putting efforts to create such content free of cost for us to learn.Not even premium courses provide such information in the same way as this.

[@itgeek4446]

I can't get over how simple this was, yet how complicated everyone else made this!!! You rock!!!!!

[@seanc.5310]

I worked in IT for years and still love the animations and very clear explanations on your channel! The way I learned most of this in textbooks was not as clear

[@nightraven836]

Helps when things are explained in practical terms, rather than allowed to be naturally obscure and daunting to learn.

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[@jasonbutler2605]

I have been unlucky enough to view quite a number of "presentations" concerning Remote Desktop connections and related material (such as Port Forwarding), but all of them left me so frustrated and full of questions due to their scattered, vague, inconsistent and low-quality info that they had to offer. Your presentation was nothing short of a revelation to me concerning the issue of connecting two computers belonging to to different LANs using Remote Desktop. I cannot really tell whether it is the clarity of your language, your grasp of the subject, the calm tone of your voice, the carefully prepared audio and video material or the sum total of all these factors that make your presentations fully understandable, complete and easily applicable in the real world. You saved me tens of hours of trying to understand this issue in a hands-on manner and I cannot thank you enough for that. Thank you very much for this professional-grade upload which, I am sure, has been key in setting up Remote Desktop connections for many people out there. Two thumbs up for this top-notch work of yours.

[@ramilrabasto1224]

If there's #1 tutorial here in youtube about explanation of port forwarding, it could be this. Thanks for your time and effort on doing these.

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I love it haha

[@catbirdfeeder]

I was think Barney fife...of Andy Griffen

[@jerrymooney3616]

Though having years of hearing about Port Forwarding and getting a sense of what it is and how to set it up, I never felt comfortable about tackling it in my fancy router. In just a few minutes, you educated me to the point I am now confident I know what this is, why it is done, and how to do it. Thank You!

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Thank you for explaining it in a simple, clear way that laymen can understand instead of a pretentious, self-satisfied, gatekeeping way that assumes the viewer already knows certain things.

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[@battle-techs]

After alllllll the reading that I've done, and video's that I've seen. Port forwarding has never been made so clear for me. Not even 10 minutes, and I understand now. Thank you!!! I've been watching your video's an hour non stop. I had to sub. I just can't believe that your video's are this short, and straight to the heart of the matter. Every one of them that I've watched!!!!! The absolute best!!!

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A very good video for beginners. In many occasions, these kind of technical explanations are done by experts who would assume their readers to already know the most fundamental concepts, leaving a lot of question marks for those who want to understand fully. But this is so well done that you understand the concepts quite thoroughly.

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Idk why I wasn't processing this concept at all, but this made it extremely straight forward and I was confusing myself for no reason. Ty good sir

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[@kennethhowell5291]

Incredible. totally accurate explanation. Told by someone that really knows what they are talking about, and can explain it, and give full comprehension of the subject to a layman. Thank you Sir. Obviously you are the king of port forwarding.

[@JessSuarez183]

Finally a clear and thorough explanation of Port Forwarding. Thanks so much, this was amazing!

[@DgreatChannel]

well precise explanation with example :) .. I actually didn't really understand whats port forwarding before watching this video..thank you

[@rexpimplemyer3839]

This does do a very nice job of explaining the process of port forwarding in a "friendly" environment. Next, we should address a more important issue, namely what to do with port forwarding over the open internet which is not populated by "friends" but by people whose sole purpose is to steal information and leave undetected. Microsoft products in their default configuration are often setup for indiscriminate sharing, a connection not desired over the open internet.

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In less than 10 minutes you completely demystified IP addresses and port numbers for me. Well done, and thank you!

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I love when you say if your still confused here's another explanation and it clicks!! Thank you.

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Thank you for a clear concise and entertaining description of Port Forwarding. Will now look forward to other videos on KZbin. Great job.

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I have never understood what port forwarding actually does, but now I know, thanks! Very useful video!

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Most informative and helpful explaining a concept I had a difficult time understanding.. Thank you

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oh my god! After so many years of confused Port Forwarding topic for me, your Telephone example NAILED IT! It's very very very clear to me now. Thanks a ton! Have watched all your videos in a single day. You deserve to be subscribed and supported. You break very difficult thing in the simplest way that even a newborn baby can understand. Love from India. :)

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Thank you! I was struggling to understand portforwarding. Now I think I got it. The animations/diagrams and slow explanation is so helpful T__T

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Well done. I liked your phone/extension analogy. .

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[@buenosaires9211]

Best Port Forwarding Intro Video I've ever seen. Still one question: must the internal port always be identical with the external ones? For security issues, usual ports exposure should not be so safe from productive environment users. What is the solution ? Thanks~!

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Awesome the phone illustration helped thanks

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Finally successfully setup port forwarding on my modem/router after all these years. The manufacturers of the modem/routers I owned didn't do a good job to make their user guide comprehensible enough. Thank you sir. Now I would like to know about port triggering.

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Awesome channel on KZbin, I watched all video's, keep going on and upload some more videos on ccna

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[@jacobbruns43]

You just blew my mind with the phone number / extension metaphor. Now it makes so much sense.

[@normandavis6569]

Very well done. I had been introduced to port forwarding for Echolink, but could not find a satisfactory explanation as to why, how and if it would damage my router. Thank you for this video.

[@pavankabadi9359]

The people who disliked the video are probably operating their WiFi from a toaster

[@thefamousdjx]

Doesnt the router forward using both a ip and port? The example makes it seem like only the port number is used to connect to device but its port and ip of device that initiated the request. This would give the idea that everyones internet will be blocked because someone assigned port 80 to their device

[@donrudyc]

Great video. Ive watched several videos and felt like a dummy. I watched your video once and it all clicked. Thank you!

[@TheSighlent1]

This video cleared up sooooo much confusion for me (relating to the concept of Ports) -Thank you so much!!!!

[@shivamlakhwara5080]

Well, I've got a question .... what if two computers💻,💻 which both have port 80, have their entries in the port forwarding table with the same port number although different IP addresses...then which computer is the router going to forward the packet to?

[@yanair2091]

To the computer with matching IP address obviously.

[@JottyHB]

Excellent animations, good comparison to companies departments. But: you should at least mention, that port forwarding can be a highly dangerous thing! Do not hide the dark force of internet!

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I'm honestly impressed at how many subtitles are available

[@buddybestor]

I understand the part where you have to enter to the port number to bypasss the firewall. but, where does the Public IP number 66.94.34.13 number come from? And how do I find this ip number?

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[@akpokemon]

So @2:38 you show that 192.168.1.1 is the *internal* router IP address... ...but @4:09 you all of the sudden show a completely different router IP address. I assume this is the *external* IP address that your ISP provided you? The IP address that the Internet sees? I wouldn't have been able to guess that without having been taught it before. Newbies would be lost. It's also confusing that @2:56 you call the *internal* router IP address simply the "IP address of the router" when it's REALLY important in this context to distinguish that it's the *internal* IP (as opposed to the *external* one shown @4:09).

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[@Teranova]

Man, great explanation. Watched a few videos and they made it seem so complicated and jumbly with words.