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Orbi port forwarding not working on multiple ports
My Orbi rbk33 system is working fine and I’ve upgraded to the latest firmware. I have several foscam IP cameras which I had port forwarded in my old system so I could see them remotely.
The first port forward worked fine. However when I try to set up the 2nd one I am getting an error message, “service name already in use and cannot he used twice” I am trying to set-up a completely different port so I am not sure what this error message means or how to get around it.
Any suggestions?
It should be on the page where you select the service you are forwarding. Take a look at page 106 in the manual here. (Assuming this matches your firmware.)
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RBK50/Orbi_UM_EN.pdf
OR, See the notes in this thread about needing to go back and change the service name from http after setting up the first forwarding rule:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-RBR50-Port-Forwarding-Not-Working/td-p/1484088
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Yes, I've rebooted the router and I've tried this on my iPad and my desktop using both Safari and Chrome.
Also, if I have 8 ports to forward and they are all different IP locations, it seems rather silly to have to reboot the router in between each time.
On my ASUS router I can easily forward multiple ports and then reboot once at the end so I am not sure what's going on now and/or what I might be doing wrong.
Is uPnP disabled before you set up PF?
Hopefully forum Moderator can help out here.
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My Orbi rbk33 system is working fine and I’ve upgraded to the latest firmware. I have several foscam IP cameras which I had port forwarded in my old system so I could see them remotely.
The first port forward worked fine. However when I try to set up the 2nd one I am getting an error message, “service name already in use and cannot he used twice” I am trying to set-up a completely different port so I am not sure what this error message means or how to get around it.
Any suggestions?
I expect you know you can only forward a given external port once. So, for example, to forward HTTP to more than one camera, you would need to specify a unique outside port for each camera. Like this: port 8081 forwarded to port 80 on cam1, 8082 forwarded to port 80 on cam2, etc.
If the above isn't the problem, then given the error message you are getting, I would try to create a "custom service" and forward that instead of forwarding HTTP more than once. It's conceivable you might need to create a custom service for each camera if you run into the same error.
I don't see any place to create a custom rule. It's not in the drop down list under port forwarding / port triggering.
I did disable uPnP and that made no difference.
I still get the error message, "Service name already in use, and cannot be used twice." even though I am trying to assign a different IP address and a new port.
Any other suggestions?
It should be on the page where you select the service you are forwarding. Take a look at page 106 in the manual here. (Assuming this matches your firmware.)
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RBK50/Orbi_UM_EN.pdf
OR, See the notes in this thread about needing to go back and change the service name from http after setting up the first forwarding rule:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-RBR50-Port-Forwarding-Not-Working/td-p/1484088
