I recently built an EQEmu server from scratch. I have it on a vmware, I connect to it locally on a LAN and a friend connects from a different state. So far everything is working well except he can not join chat.
I have port forwarded 9000, 7000-7100 and 7778. The latter being in case it was needed for chat. Here are my ini settings.
<!-- Chatserver (channels) information. Defaults shown -->
<chatserver>
<host>192.168.254.75</host>
<port>7778</port>
</chatserver>
<!-- Mailserver (in-game mail) information. Defaults shown -->
<mailserver>
<host>192.168.254.75</host>
<port>7778</port>
</mailserver>
I don't need mailserver at all in case that can cause an issue. The server IP is static and even my Private IP from my internet provider is static. I am sure there is a simple step I am missing here. I know other people use dynamic DNS services but I shouldn't need that since everything on my end is static?