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Opening Ports on Orbi
I need some advice on how to set up Port Forwarding for Wi-Fi Calling to work properly through Orbi. There are multiple phones that utilize this feature so I can't specify a particular IP address. ...
You cannot forward a single incoming port (e.g. UDP 500) to more than one IP address on the LAN. Think about it...how would the router know to which of your multiple phones to forward the incoming connection?
The only way this could be done is if you had multiple WAN IP addresses (one per phone), or if the connections are all initiated by the phones on the LAN (in which case no forwarding rule is needed).
You should review why you think this forwarding is necessary.
Yes I suppose I might have to use a port trigger instead. As to why, as I said before, WIFI calling on our cell phones is dependent upon communicating through these ports, and since I have no service in my loction I am dependent on it.
PhoenixV wrote:Yes I suppose I might have to use a port trigger instead. As to why, as I said before, WIFI calling on our cell phones is dependent upon communicating through these ports, and since I have no service in my loction I am dependent on it.
I stil think you are mistaken. You might need to use these ports on OUTGOING connections, but this requires no port forwarding or other configuration. These ports are related to VPN connections, by the way.
Why do you believe you need port forwarding? What are you looking at that makes you think this is required?
Give a link to a reference that indicates these ports must be opened.
Actually I am correct, as the tech support documents from T-mobile exist all over. Basically, the WiFi Calling feature sets up a secure tunnel connecting back to the servers.....