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How to Setup Remote Desktop Connection through WAN on FVS318G
Hi,
I'm having trouble setting up outbound/inbound rules to allow for Remote Desktop Connection through WAN. Is there some tutorial or reference guidance page that I can use? I'm behind a 4-port modem that has one public static IP assigned to it. I have a connected to one port the ProSafe VPN FVS318G, and it gets assiged an IP address 192.168.0.2 (which I'm somehow seeing as the assigned broadband IP). But I there's an existing network setting that ranges from 192.168.22.1 - 192.168.22.254.
Thanks in advance,
rsjpx
Hi rsjpx,
Welcome to the community! :)
It seems that the 4-port modem you got is a combination of modem and router that is why the WAN IP address registered on the FVS318G is a private IP address. I suggest that you set the 4-port modem to full-bridge mode so that the WAN IP address that will be registered to the FVS318G would be a public IP address.
After you've done what I have suggested, you will need to configure an inbound rule to allow port 3389 for Remote Desktop Connection. Kindly read pages 4-11 and 4-15 to 4-18 of the FVS318G reference manual here about LAN WAN Inbound Services Rules and Inbound Rule examples respectively.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
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Hi rsjpx,
Welcome to the community! :)
It seems that the 4-port modem you got is a combination of modem and router that is why the WAN IP address registered on the FVS318G is a private IP address. I suggest that you set the 4-port modem to full-bridge mode so that the WAN IP address that will be registered to the FVS318G would be a public IP address.
After you've done what I have suggested, you will need to configure an inbound rule to allow port 3389 for Remote Desktop Connection. Kindly read pages 4-11 and 4-15 to 4-18 of the FVS318G reference manual here about LAN WAN Inbound Services Rules and Inbound Rule examples respectively.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Thank you DanaA! For some reason the FVS318G didn't receive a public IP address after I had set the modem to bridge mode. But after a couple of good hard resets to the modem, the FVS318G finally got a public IP address assigned to it.
Hi rsjpx,
You're welcome! :) I'm glad you finally got a WAN Public IP address assigned on the FVS318G.
Feel free to post your future concerns here in the community.
Cheers,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
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