kinkster Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Really dont know what the problem is. Windows firewall is off, and i have no other firewall software. Ive tried different IPs and a bunch of different ports. 180 is what it should be, and is every time. I dont see what the problem could be. Maybe ask my ISP what the DNS severs should really be? Im going to plug in a different router too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96376-port-forwarding-not-working/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
unohoo Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Hi - my setup is slightly different. I turn off UPnP in the router so would choose NAT. I keep my pc settings as DHCP but choose to maintain the same IP address in the router. My port forwarding settings are assigned to the hostname not its IP address. Not sure that 192.168.1.1 is a Local IP address - that is the Gateway address.But I am not familiar with the inteface you are using.Also my DNS servers are not stored locally. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96376-port-forwarding-not-working/#findComment-688213 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Set the port number to something lower like 3256 or something. I had the same problem in uTorrent with using port numbers over 4500 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96376-port-forwarding-not-working/#findComment-688260 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinkster Posted March 29, 2008 Author Share Posted March 29, 2008 Thanks for the replies. I tried lower numbers, didnt work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96376-port-forwarding-not-working/#findComment-688283 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermatea Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Maybe you should change your protocol to TCP. I don't think how high your port number is has anything to do with it. I'm currently using one in the 29300+ range. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96376-port-forwarding-not-working/#findComment-688348 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinkster Posted March 29, 2008 Author Share Posted March 29, 2008 How do I change that? On the port forwarding thing? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96376-port-forwarding-not-working/#findComment-688417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
unohoo Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Under Protocol you have it set to BOTH - choose the TCP option Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96376-port-forwarding-not-working/#findComment-688420 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcon351 Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 You could try turning off the UPnP option, since you have the forwarding set up manually (UPnP mapping shouldn't hurt, but you never know...) Going off-topic - these routers usually run a DNS proxy, so you should be able to point your LAN machines to the router's address for DNS and let it forward (possibly cache as well) requests. It will get DNS server addresses from the ISP via DHCP. That way you wouldn't have to worry about losing DNS functionality if addresses change (don't know how likely that is, but anyway...) I don't remember having trouble setting up forwarding, both manually and via UPnP, on a Netgear router. However, as the router was a bit flaky, I left it sitting on the LAN as a wireless access point only and set up a PC with SmoothWall to do the routing and other stuff. May be overkill in some ways, but it's doing the job nicely. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96376-port-forwarding-not-working/#findComment-688803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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