Multiple Port forwarding challenges and solutions.
This is actually aimed at (not IT supported) homeschool, camps, clumbs sort of groups that may be trying to host more than one world from a non enterprise level situation. As in you don't have an IT person handing the networking and port forwarding stuff for you and you are probably using something similar to a home network.
My situation. I'm running a small Minecraft education homeschool group and we are pretty much always remote other than my own child. And was having trouble figuring out how the heck I could host more than one Minecraft education world from my location.
May routers offer the option to have for example port 19132 forwarded to say computer A on internal port 19132 and then say have port 19133 forwarded to computer B on internal port 19132.
BUT my ISP (comcast/xfinity) has changed the way they handle port forwarding and you can ONLY forward the external port to the same internal port. As in only one computer at my location could have something forwarded to port 19132. SO, I was only able to use a single computer to host a single world from my location at any one time.
My solution (unfortunately not free) involved getting an additional router to put into my home network.
So now, I have set up the additional router on the home network. Made sure in the ISPs gateway that device has a reserved (or static) IP address within my home network. And set all port forwarding I want to go to minecraft education edition hosting computers to that router.
Within the new router I have made sure all Minecraft education edition hosting computers have been given reserved(static) IP addresses. And I have set up the port forwarding in that router to send the appropriate external ports to the appropriate computers on 19132.
Now I have to make sure to check my external IP address (since that is likely to change every so often) before giving the information to students to join worlds from the outside, and they have to join using the IP address and port, NOT the Join code but it does seem to work.
Bonus is many routers allow you to create an additional security layer, however, computers behind the additional router will be isolated from equipment on the Original network. As in if you have printers hooked to the IPS gateway's router and your computer is on the Extra router, you may not be able to access that printer anymore.
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