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Help Needed: Port Forwarding
Hi All, I'm having issues with port forwarding, scanner tool shows ports are closed/filtered. Here is my setup... Physical Setup AT&T Gateway BRGW10 Orbi RBR50 Router Connected to AT&T Ga...
Did you disable uPnP before setting up your PF configurations?
ALso you need to be actively using those ports before trying to check the status of them. They will remain closed until they are used.
Yes, UPnP was disabled, then I created the PF. I've test scanned with UPnP remaining disabled and with it renabled and the ports still appear to be closed.
I thought Port Forwarding keeps the ports open constantly while Port Triggering only opens when they are actively in use, no?
No. PF just configures the port for open when something accesses the port. The port is closed until something accesses the port, like an app or device. The port needs to be access fully to check its status correctly. Security wouldn't be good if the port was open and nothing wasn't accessing it.