- Netgear DG834
- Posted by PJB on July 20th, 2005
Have just bought one of these, being somewhat of a Netgear fan, to replace
my aging EN5861. It connects just fine, no problems there, but port
forwarding is proving troublesome. All the requisite inbound ports are set
correctly, and to ALLOW ALWAYS, but nothing can get through the damn thing.
EG FTP is set to forward to my server on the lan, but can I connect through
it?..no way Jose, same with VNC, SMTP, POP3 etc. Anyone shed any light
perhaps?
P.
- Posted by Amy Sue on July 20th, 2005
"Anthony R. Gold" <not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> wrote in message
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network and back in again via the external router address. AIUI this will
not work with the DG834. To test the forwarding rules the OP will need to
attempt a connection from an external IP address such as a neighbour/friend
or from work, not from within his own network.
- Posted by poster on July 21st, 2005
On 20 Jul 2005 22:11, "Amy Sue" <iowamezzo@aol.com> wrote:
Indeed. It is usually quite difficult to test such things without some other
party to assist. I've used shell accounts on remote servers to test some of
these things, and of course the (sometimes disliked!) Shields Up! at grc.com
can be used to check the ports are open at the router, that the firewall has
seen some incoming traffic (if you disable access on a port by port basis),
but then some other application might be needed... Having two phone lines
(and two ISP accounts) to allow such tests isn't very common, so another
way might be to have a friend allow VNC access so person at 'A' can use
a PC at 'B' to make attempts to access features at 'A' that one wants
generally available...
Getting VNC to work is quite easy, and once that is going, there's a good
chance to go to ( test / amend settings) mode until the settings are working
reliably (probably best not done from work, and not after pub closing time:-)
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- Posted by Tony on July 21st, 2005
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I'm really pleased with my DG834G, one of the best bits of kit I have here.
Rock solid and not a bit of trouble.
