Port Forwarding Software

[oober]

What software do you recommend I use to do port forwarding besides the windows firewall?

 

[LazyLion]

what do you need the port forwarding for?

Easiest way is to just put your router into bridge mode and then create a PPPoE connection on your computer.

The ports will then be configured on your computer instead of on the router.

 

[The_Techie]

Live adventurously and put your PC in the DMZ

I believe Port Forward have a piece of software designed for forwarding ports on the various routers, haven't really looked into it.

 

[oober]

I connect from my home pc to my work pc via VPN so now I just want to port forward requests from my home browser to my work's proxy server so that I can browse international sites with my local cap...

 

[TelkomUseless]

I connect from my home pc to my work pc via VPN so now I just want to port forward requests from my home browser to my work's proxy server so that I can browse international sites with my local cap...

Wouldn't that just be setting up a proxy for your browser?

 

[oober]

I there is no route setup on the vpn for my home pc to access the proxy server at work.

 

[andres101]

I don't know of any port forwarding apps for windows. I do however know of a small proxy server that should accomplish the same thing, called AnalogX Proxy

 

[Juggy]

I there is no route setup on the vpn for my home pc to access the proxy server at work.

Are you using the built in VPN connection in Windows?

If you go to the properties on the connection, TCPIP settings, Advanced, make sure the "use default gateway on remote network" is checked.

To test if you are using it goto a website that detects your IP, it should be the office public IP and not your router assigned one.

 

[Amida]

Are you using the built in VPN connection in Windows?

If you go to the properties on the connection, TCPIP settings, Advanced, make sure the "use default gateway on remote network" is checked.

To test if you are using it goto a website that detects your IP, it should be the office public IP and not your router assigned one.

+1

 

[oober]

I'm using OpenVPN, not sure if once can edit the conf files and add a route. They might be blocking VPN ips from the proxy server.

 

[Conradl]

Are you sure it is not already forwarding your requests trough your work proxy? I've seen it a lot when we disable split tunneling on a VPN; users connect to the VPN and then browse as usual, not realizing that they being monitored by the Proxy server!

 

[andres101]

add the following to your openvpn configuration file:
# replace existing default gateway with route to server
push "redirect-gateway local"

if that does not work (replace 1.2.3.4 with your work PC VPN IP):
# add a default gateway to 1.2.3.4
push "route-gateway 1.2.3.4"

If they are blocking the requests on the proxy server, use AnalogX Proxy. They will not be able to distinguish the difference between a request from the proxy and a request from your work PC.