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FVS318N Can’t Port Forward
Okay. I’m throwing the uncle card. I can’t get the FVS318N to port forward. I’m trying to forward port 1723 (PPtP) for VPN into our server. I get out, I hit the server, but it is being blocked on t...
Well...
It's working AOK now...
I connected the server using ethernet wired connection to ethernet port #3 on the router and disabled the wireless adapter on the server and enabled the wired adapter on the server and setup the IP addresses accordingly.
I then went directly to the DynDns web site and manually updated the ISP DHCP IP so that NSLOOKUP gets the current IP at the router.
Everything now works to use the external URL to access the WEB server using NAT...
I DON'T know what was wrong, or what I did to fix it...
Could it be that the FVS318N doesn't like doing NAT to wireless devices?
I'll do another experiment tomorrow to verify that is the problem or not...
Thanks for your replies even if they didn't solve the problem...
Terry :)
It's working AOK now...
I connected the server using ethernet wired connection to ethernet port #3 on the router and disabled the wireless adapter on the server and enabled the wired adapter on the server and setup the IP addresses accordingly.
I then went directly to the DynDns web site and manually updated the ISP DHCP IP so that NSLOOKUP gets the current IP at the router.
Everything now works to use the external URL to access the WEB server using NAT...
I DON'T know what was wrong, or what I did to fix it...
Could it be that the FVS318N doesn't like doing NAT to wireless devices?
I'll do another experiment tomorrow to verify that is the problem or not...
Thanks for your replies even if they didn't solve the problem...
Terry :)
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