Port forwarding

[anarchy-rabbit]

For my router firewall do I need to create access rules under Access control? I did try but then nothing worked, I even allowed browsing and even that wouldn't work - maybe I'm just doing it wrong..

I allowed the port in the windows firewall and even turned it off and still nothing. I don't have any other firewall afaik.

It's a port for UTorrent, 47072. But would like to get it to work for my PS too.

 

[anarchy-rabbit]

OK, either Access Control has under the firewall has nothing to do with this or I'm cocking it up really bad because as soon as I start to mess around there, all the IP's that contain a rule dont seem to have any internet permission, even the port that is supplied in the rule does not seem to work. I tested this with one of the machine's IP and that machine had nothing..

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

When I go to http://whatismyip.com/ it says my IP is 41.240.XXX.XXX.
When I got to http://portforward.com/ it says "Your external IP is 196.25.XXX.XXX"

Why are these different? Aren't they supposed to be the same?

I also saw that when I was testing. The whatsmyip is the correct one. While you at it, create a free dyndns account. Most routers can manage the IP update to the dyndns servers automatically.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

OK, either Access Control has under the firewall has nothing to do with this or I'm cocking it up really bad because as soon as I start to mess around there, all the IP's that contain a rule dont seem to have any internet permission, even the port that is supplied in the rule does not seem to work. I tested this with one of the machine's IP and that machine had nothing..

First step: you need to have an app on your PC to accept traffic on the port you are trying to open.
Example, my SSH server running on my PC is on Port22 - my router portforwards to it. If I switch off my PC, then I get a "Connection Refused"


2nd step: Disable your port forwarding - delete the rules. Then disable you routers firewall and try and connect to its IP from your cellphone via WAP. You should see the admin web page, if not, then your router is not accepting outside traffic and you need to update it to do so. Then once you got that working, re-enable your port forwarding and then try again.

 

[anarchy-rabbit]

First step: you need to have an app on your PC to accept traffic on the port you are trying to open.
Example, my SSH server running on my PC is on Port22 - my router portforwards to it. If I switch off my PC, then I get a "Connection Refused"

What app do I use to do this?

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

I'm a Linux user so cannot think of a quick app you could try. To see if the app is accepting traffic on ports, in the command line of the PC running the app, use telnet:

example: > telnet localhost 22 (or whatever port your trying to access)

 

[syntax]

I'm a Linux user so cannot think of a quick app you could try. To see if the app is accepting traffic on ports, in the command line of the PC running the app, use telnet:

example: > telnet localhost 22 (or whatever port your trying to access)

assuming its a tcp port...

 

[anarchy-rabbit]

I dunno, I think this has gone a level above my minimal networking capabilities. But thanks for the help anyways guy!