-Port forwarding worked fine to my computer with static IP address
-Moved wireless NIC to different computer, with different static IP address
-deleted port forward in poopy xfi webpage
-deleted old device in poopy xfi webpage
-found new device in poopy xfi webpage and defined it (name & type)
-Details shows the correct IP address
-Add port forward to new device, manually define desired port
-Definition that was created, shows "No associated device" and uses old IP address.
How do I fix this? 2 hours on the phone with Comcast tech support and they:
-Set my gateway to bridged mode (took my network down for an hour until they figured that out)
-Sent me instructions on how to create a port forward (clearly because I had an existing port forward, I must not know how to create one...)
-Ended the call by saying port forwards can only be created to DHCP addresses, and since my server uses a static address (because WHY would I ever want a static address on my server?!) I could not set up a port forward to it, even though I had a port forward configured to a static IP before all this started.
So, anyone have any answers on how to get the rented modem to clear the associated IP from the mac address of my wireless nic. Because clearly that is what is going on. I said that to the techs, but I might as well have been talking Martian for all they understood.
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