As of port forwarding, depending on which router you have you can config it to allow more than one. I have an edgerouter and i was able to manually set both of my apollos via port 9333 via NAT rule.
update:
and success, the dashboard loaded! but I had no connections - I think the issue is that I have port 9333 forwarded for the node that runs on my PC - I had to remove that port forward from the pc's ip address and set it for the Apollo's ip address. Rebooting node and will see if that resolves it.
update:
after I shut down node, it gave me an error about displaying stats. I should have taken a screenshot and will if I see it again. I simply restarted the Apollo and once in hit start on the node - while waiting, the apollo has shut down twice - each time I have to restart the node. putty cannot get in to the miner while this is happening either. I am tired and going to bed - I get up in 4 hours for work. After I get going at work, I will revisit this again.
final update:
as you would have it, I was walking away and the Apollo shut down. So, of course I turned around and sat back down. This time the node restarted itself upon booting up - maybe that was the issue? the last two times it restarted, I was hitting start on the node instead of letting it do itself.
I have 12 connections however, my full node/wallet has only 8 (the standard outbound) due to the port forwarding issue - anyone know of a solution so I can run both nodes?
https://i.ibb.co/sgcSQv6/Capture.jpgYea I should have mentioned in the instructions that on first boot with the node USB plugged in it does a bunch of system level changes to initialize the node. You pressing start when it has already started probably cause the issues you were seeing.
Best way to start it up the first time is to shut down the Apollo, plug in the USB drive, power it up and leave it alone for an hour. When you go to the dashboard everything should be up and running.
As for port forwarding multiple nodes you can usually only port forward to one device in your network, so im not sure about a solution where you can have both nodes open to the outside world, I think you just have to chose one of them as a read only node. It does not matter either way, your doing your part as long as one node is open.
BTW what USB drive are you using?
