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DevinAK
Jan 12, 2020Aspirant
RBK50 Port Forwarding Help
Trying to port forward port 51820 to the world. I have a service running on 192.168.1.19 that exposes this port with no local firewall. The service running is running currently and exists. Runnin...
CrimpOn
Jan 13, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Wow, "technical difficulties" on my end. Maybe if I "attach" the picture.
I think a call to the ISP is in order. My son lives in North Carolina and has fiber from a local company. The IP his Orbi thinks is "public" actually is. I connect to it routinely.
"Hi, internet company. What is my public IP address?" "How come neither my router nor the internet think that's what it is?"
CrimpOn
Jan 13, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Geez. Maybe you have PPoE rather than DHCP? Nah, surely that's not it.
http://www.cables-solutions.com/pppoe-vs-dhcp-difference.html