by ZiiS on 1/13/22, 11:46 AM
If they need all your incoming traffic they should probably have called it a "router" not a "switch".
by misnome on 1/13/22, 11:03 AM
by goldcd on 1/13/22, 11:19 AM
It's pretty good advice, if you're Nintendo and spending a fortune trying to provide support advice to people with crappy router config/connections. Yes it's entirely likely to cause other problems - but probably going to get that switch working.
Other problems will go to other vendors - and if their advice stops your switch from working, that's on them.
by MauranKilom on 1/13/22, 12:24 PM
This whole article is... optimistic.
> 4. Enter the IP address you found on the network device, but add 20 to the last section of digits, and then select OK.
> As an example, if your computer's IP address displays as 192.168.2.5, enter 192.168.2.25 on the Nintendo Switch.
Hope you don't have more than 20 devices on your network (after your PC), and that they're not configured to be close to 255 there...
by 46424ea63d4c on 1/13/22, 11:40 AM
Just a quick advice, as I struggled with this as my daughter complained that she could not join network games in Animal Crossing because she had only “NAT Type D”.
Forwarding all these ports was the recommended solution in Nintendo’s docs. However, it did nothing to resolve this problem. What helped was to ensure not to modify source ports in the NAT setup (“static-port” in pf).
by ginko on 1/13/22, 11:19 AM
What is this needed for? I never set up any port forwarding and don't remember having any issues with network connectivity. But then again I don't play that much online.
by mschuster91 on 1/13/22, 11:18 AM
My s/o and her sister (CS student) regularly play Animal Crossing over the Internet. I (and the SIL) wanted to curse Nintendo to hell and back for requiring users to essentially put their Switches available to the wide Internet (meaning, as long as the Switch is powered on,
any RCE exploit on the Switch turns it into a full, unrestricted gateway into my home network!) simply because Nintendo doesn't want to follow basic Internet standards like UPnP or, heaven forbid, provide STUN/TURN proxies paid for by the Nintendo Online subscription.
Hell it took years for them to implement Bluetooth audio on the Switch, and that's output-only, no microphone. What stuff is their software division smoking?
by thanatos519 on 1/13/22, 11:09 AM
What, they can't use UPnP like a good citizen?
by zibzab on 1/13/22, 3:15 PM
That's not portforwarding, that's moving to the DMZ...
by dm319 on 1/13/22, 11:12 AM
Darn, I hope this isn't the solution to the problem I have where my switch won't join other worlds on minecraft.
by smcleod on 1/13/22, 11:46 AM
PlayStation is pretty bad too, they want 80, 443 (and 1935, 3074, 3478-3479), if you don't you can get all sorts of really annoying problems joining games, delays joining voice chats etc....
by thrdbndndn on 1/13/22, 12:38 PM
Just curious, what if you have another layer of NAT, or your router is out of your control (and no UPnP)?
You just can't play networked games with Switch, or what?
by rawling on 1/13/22, 11:26 AM
by icf80 on 1/13/22, 11:49 AM
doesn't ipv6 fixes those issue?
by hwers on 1/13/22, 11:41 AM
What's the reason not to open all ports btw? Outing myself as naive by asking
by Terry_Roll on 1/13/22, 11:10 AM
I cant believe a company this size could suggest such a thing, so has anyone tried doing this and then monitored what happens?
Is the Switch able to do other stuff which is not reported or mentioned anywhere?
by vorticalbox on 1/13/22, 12:17 PM
does anyone know why? I don't have this set up on my network haven't had any issues.
by _trampeltier on 1/13/22, 11:32 AM
You allways have to, why? And I was so close to buy a Switch. But no .. never gona happen to may home Network.
by mysterydip on 1/13/22, 11:29 AM
What if I have two switches?
by rehamelbasha on 1/13/22, 10:54 AM
As a network engineer, this made me audibly sigh.
Solid advice, redirect all incoming UDP traffic to your Switch, and your Switch alone...