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GuyDamato
Aspirant
Dec 21, 2015

port forwarding on FVS336gv3

I figured port forwarding would be straight forward, I have been using a sonicwall, and replaced it with the netgear prosafe FVS336Gv3 dual WAN router.  We have security cameras attached to a DVR, an...
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JohnRo's avatar
JohnRo
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Dec 22, 2015

Hi GuyDamato, 

 

Welcome to the community! 

 

It appears that you have created the rules correctly, if you want to do a recap of the instructions in port forwarding click here. If you can share a screenshot (by PM) of the rules (Inbound rules) you have created I can check it for you. Also, we'd like to know what firmware version you are using on the firewall. 

 

I'll wait for your response. 

 

Thanks, 

GuyDamato's avatar
GuyDamato
Aspirant
Dec 31, 2015

Thanks for the Response, I went on site to where we are using the Prosafe.  When i created the "Groups" and added the services i created, i added two services to each Group. (Since i have to forward two ports to each DVR).  I went back and split up each service into its own group, and everything worked fine....

 

maybe it got confused...lol

 

Thanks for being there, at least as a sounding board, to bounce stuff off of...

 

Take care

 

Guy

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    JohnRo
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Jan 01, 2016

    Hi GuyDamato, 

     

    Nice to know that you got it working. Yes, we'll be here if you have questions in the future. 

     

    Happy New Year to you!

     

    Thanks, 

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