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Nintendo Issues with Nat

tnewton — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 17:35:48 GMT

We have a couple of Nintendos in our district. I have a NAT Policy setup which is allowing them to get to the internet. Right now it show NAT B. This is after rebooting them. I have two separate NAT policies because two nintendos on seperate IP address. Looking for other ideas get the NAT A. This is on a PA-3220.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Nintendo Issues with Nat

JayGolf — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 22:06:45 GMT

Hi @tnewton ,

Are you currently unable to access the Internet from the Nintendos? What is the issue that you are experiencing?

Re: Nintendo Issues with Nat

tnewton — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 23:18:58 GMT

We are able to access the internet. We need to be able to be Nat A to access games from other schools, since this is a egaming consoles. The students can't play other schools due to the NAT restriction. I have thought about putting both consoles in a DMZ zone but don't know how to setup that on the switch.

Re: Nintendo Issues with Nat

BPry — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 03:38:14 GMT

@tnewton,

You're going to need to have a static IP in place for these two devices along with bi-directional enabled to actually get Type A on the switch. I would personally run these devices in a DMZ outside of your trust zone and isolated as much as possible; these things have to be pretty exposed to actually function correctly for peer-to-peer games which the switch in particular pretty much requires for anything you're playing rather than relaying through a dedicated server.