2 Plex servers on the same router. One follows port forwarding the other doesn't

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Okay. I must admit I am a little intimidated posting this question given the sophistication of some of the setups I have seen. My setup is quite simple. I have a plex server running on Synology NAS with port 32400. Works fine and is accessible from outside my network.

I accomplished this by using the port forwarding function of my router as seen here.

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I also have a Plex server running on my Mac. I set it up by specifying port 32401. You can see i did the port forwarding for it as well. But as you can see here I can’t get remote access to it.

So I can’t figure out how to get the MAC server at 32401 to be accessible. Any help would be appreciated. I am noob and I should be able to figure this out but no luck so far.

Thanks
John

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I only see a port forward rule for 192.168.1.22, port 32401. And that’s not correct.

Each Plex server uses port 32400. You have to create rules that point to that:

Protocol TCP, external port 32400, internal port 32400 (for plex server #1 static IP address)
Protocol TCP, external port 32401, internal port 32400 (for plex server #2 static IP address)

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That’s kind of what I thought but as you see in port forwarding, it doesn’t allow me to specify a different internal and external port. I wonder if I may have to look at port triggering. Cisco instructions are pretty confusing.
Thanks for the clarification.

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I just did a quick google search, and I think you are out of luck with that router. Didn’t see anything that allows you to pick different internal and external ports. You can enable UPnP in the router, and then let Plex manage remote access that way. Then you don’t need to set up any manual port forward rules.

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It might be possible using UPnP forwarding in your Cisco router, not just using UPnP.

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Thanks. Your suggestion saved me a lot of work. I just enabled UPnP and it took over. It seemed to take a few minutes for the servers to all show up but now that they have its awesome. Thanks for your help and patience. there seems to be a lot to learn.
John

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Make sure to check out the link I posted. There looks to be another way to do port forwards under the UPnP section. UPnP can be problematic at times.

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Yes. You managed to find in 15 mins something I have been searching for days. Told you I was afraid to ask. But I learned a few things and that counts.

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Welcome to the fun world of Plex. If you have any other issues don’t be afraid to ask, haha!