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Aspirant

Nov 03, 2015

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PORT FORWARDING ON NETGEAR PROSAFE

Hi all, am trying to open/forward my IP camera system ports in order to have remote access. I have my Camera port numbers in handy but am wondering how to open them.I use Netgear prosafe gigabit ...

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JohnRo
Nov 04, 2015
Hello srikanthgungi,

Welcome to the community!

To open ports on your firewall you'll have to go to Security>Firewall Rules then click Add (Inbound Services), on the Service drop-down menu are the names of predefined services that you can choose from (see image below for reference):

If the service(s) that you have is not on the list, you'll have to add them manually. Go to Security>Services and Add Custom Service, see image below for reference:

For full instructions, please click on this link (page 230).

I hope it helps, if you have more questions we'll be happy to help.

Thanks,

JohnRo

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Nov 04, 2015

Hello srikanthgungi,

Welcome to the community!

To open ports on your firewall you'll have to go to Security>Firewall Rules then click Add (Inbound Services), on the Service drop-down menu are the names of predefined services that you can choose from (see image below for reference):

If the service(s) that you have is not on the list, you'll have to add them manually. Go to Security>Services and Add Custom Service, see image below for reference:

For full instructions, please click on this link (page 230).

I hope it helps, if you have more questions we'll be happy to help.

Thanks,

srikanthgungi

Aspirant

Nov 04, 2015

Hi JohnRo,

Thanks for your help, I was trying to open the ports of my IP cameras so that i can have a remote access from my home.So is there any particular service for that sort of ports from the drop down menu that we get under services. and also i have tried by creating a service and making inbound rules which allows always and it was sucessfull but when i check wether the ports are open are not with the following link

http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/

which says that the particular port is closed. Help me with this issue.

Thank You

JohnRo
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Nov 04, 2015
Hi srikanthgungi,

What ports do you need to open? Post a screenshot of an inbound rule that you have created so I can check if it's done properly. Also, what is the model/brand of your modem?

Looking forward to your response.

Thanks,
- srikanthgungi
  Aspirant
  Nov 04, 2015
  
  Hi This is the thing that i have done as outbond rule to open the port/forward the ports.
- srikanthgungi
  Aspirant
  Nov 04, 2015
  Hi JohnRo,
  i have tried both inbounds and outbound rules to open my ports 80,5150 and 5160 and the screen shots below,please have a look.
  - JohnRo
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Nov 05, 2015
    Hello srikanthgungi,
    
    You'll have to remove the outbound services since they are redundant, they default outbound policy is already on "Allow Always" so we don't need to add them on the table. Also, we need to remove the "ANY" service on the inbound rule and create a new rule, see image below:
    
    HTTP is port 80, which is one of the ports that you need to open. You are using port 80 for web access, make sure you can access the interface of your camera. One last thing is to check the settings of the cameras, make sure that they are listening to these port numbers. I would also like to know what modem you are using.
    
    Thanks,