I am using a cisco 831 for my home office dsl connect to the internet.
The port forwarding I am setting up on the router does not appear to be
working. I have connected a PC to the service port of the 831.

Is there a command I can run thru the service port that would help me
trace down my port forwarding problem? What would be neat is if the
router could tell me that, yes, inbound traffic was received on port
3008 and this is what was done with that traffic.

thanks,

-Steve

Steve,

"show ip nat translations"

Will give you all the NAT translations configured on the box.

Post your config if you like, might get a better idea.

Rob

RobO wrote:
hope this is readable:

Router>show ip nat translations
Pro Inside global Inside local Outside local Outside
global
tcp 138.89.132.103:3202 10.10.10.2:3202 193.195.69.20:80
193.195.69.20:80
tcp 138.89.132.103:3008 10.10.10.160:3008 --- ---
tcp 138.89.132.103:1521 10.10.10.2:1521 216.73.86.58:80
216.73.86.58:80
tcp 138.89.132.103:4620 10.10.10.2:4620 64.233.161.147:80
64.233.161.147:80
tcp 138.89.132.103:1049 10.10.10.2:1049 192.168.1.160:139
192.168.1.160:139
tcp 138.89.132.103:1057 10.10.10.2:1057 192.168.1.160:445
192.168.1.160:445
tcp 138.89.132.103:1142 10.10.10.2:1142 66.28.209.210:80
66.28.209.210:80

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the port 3008 is the one I am trying to forward. What is "outside
local" and "outside global"? Is that for outbound traffic?

I want a socket program running on my godaddy hosted web site to be
able to connect to a socket program on a system inside my network. The
error I get is "the connected party has failed to respond"

Can I run a trace on the cisco 831 which will show me if the router is
receiving any traffic on port 3008 and what it is doing with it?

thanks,

-Steve

Steve,

Does that PC(10.10.10.160) listen on port 3008???

The inside global is your external IP address.
The inside local is the internal IP address to which the port is being
mapped.
The outside global/local is the source IP address which is connecting
to your router.

NB!!!

***What is the program you want to connect TO? and what port does this
use?
You mentioned a web server?
According to your last post the mapping is to internal port 3008 on
10.10.10.160 does that listen on TCP port 3008?

***Do you have any access-lists in place that could be blocking port
3008?

Maybe just post your whole config if you dont mind (remove all
passwords etc) so I can have a look.

Rob