Netplay Issues

[calebthegeek]

I am having some issues with netplay and would appreciate some help. Me and my friend are wanting to casually play wind waker together and I'm attempting to host a session and am using the direct option with the forward port option enabled. I've gone into my router settings and on the port forwarding tab have set the port to 2626 and have set my private IP. When my friend has my private IP and port set he is unable to join receiving a message along the lines of "Failed to communicate to host" and have been unsuccessful in getting it to work. He is using the direct option when attempting to connect as well. Thanks in advance.