Marconi POTS and port forwarding

[call.me.mickey]

Hi Techies,

I have a Marconi Router configured to use DHCP over a small network. The IP of my box (not the router) is therefore internal: 192.*.102.

I have set up apache to listen on port 8080 on this above IP and have tried everything I can think of to forward the router's IP to this box on the DHCP network.

How do I set up the router software so that any http requests coming in to the router IP at port 80 are redirected to my 192.*.102 IP at port 8080?

The network connects to a mini-hub that is connected directly to the router. Therefore I do not think I can use external software, I need to do this using NAT/PAT on the router software.

Any <b>step by step </b>help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[cybernaire]

I would like some help with this as well. I've set up the port forwarding in the PAT setup, but it doesn't work. If I use www.grc.com to check the open ports it says that port 80 is closed. I've closed my firewall to rule it out. Any help will be appreciated.

 

[vincent]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by call.me.mickey</i>
<br />Hi Techies,

I have a Marconi Router configured to use DHCP over a small network. The IP of my box (not the router) is therefore internal: 192.*.102.

I have set up apache to listen on port 8080 on this above IP and have tried everything I can think of to forward the router's IP to this box on the DHCP network.

How do I set up the router software so that any http requests coming in to the router IP at port 80 are redirected to my 192.*.102 IP at port 8080?

The network connects to a mini-hub that is connected directly to the router. Therefore I do not think I can use external software, I need to do this using NAT/PAT on the router software.

Any <b>step by step </b>help would be greatly appreciated!
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I use the Netgear DG814 router, but I assume that port forwarding functionality is similar. Note that http requests default to port 80. This means that if you want incoming http requests to go to port 8080 by using your router's port forwarding, you have to firstly, set up a custom service (not the default http service) and secondly, all incoming http requests will have to specify the port to connect on e.g. www.yoursite.com:8080

If you're using Linux, you could also use iptables to redirect all port 80 requests to port 8080.

I assume you have a Dynamic DNS service set up; otherwise no amount of port forwarding will help unless you type in the actual ip address of the router (changing it every 24 hours!)

HTH,
Vincent