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C7000 Port 8080
Hi everyone! i am trying to control my DirecTV over port 8080. I have created a static IP for my DirecTV and enabled TCP/UDP port forwarding of 8080 to the DirecTV static address. When I tried to...
Yeah, I was just told never to share ip addresses. But the command does work within the LAN, just not the WAN. And I have Port Forwarding open.
> Copy+paste the actual port-forwarding rule and address
> reservation?
Still waiting.
> And I have Port Forwarding open.
Perhaps. I want to see the evidence.
> But the command does work within the LAN, just not the WAN.
Which "the command", exactly, works on the LAN? A URL with the LAN
address, or a URL with the WAN address? If port forwarding is working,
then both should work from the LAN.
> Yeah, I was just told never to share ip addresses.
Fine. But hide that one datum, not all the data. Copy+paste remains
your friend.
Oh gotcha. Sorry I misunderstood before. So the DirecTV IP Address is 192.168.0.15. This is what I changed in the router.
> Copy+paste the actual port-forwarding rule and address
> reservation?> But the command does work within the LAN, just not the WAN.
This is the command.... http://2600:8800:1e12:3522:7c17:b076:cbe0:28b6:8080/remote/processKey?key=pause&hold=keyPress
So when I put this in the address bar on my home network 'Netgear' it pauses the DirecTV. But when I attempt from my cell phone (ie. the WAN), it doesn't work. I got the 2600..number by googling 'whats my ip'.
Thanks.
The port forwarding data look ok to me.
> http://IPv6_address:8080/remote/processKey?key=pause&hold=keyPress
I lack IPv6 experience, so I know nothing, but you might try
enclosing the IP address in that URL with brackets:
a:b:c:d:e:f:g:h:8080 -> [a:b:c:d:e:f:g:h]:8080
Otherwise, there's some ambiguity in the IPv6 address format when a
colon-separated port number is appended. No bets, but it's an easy test
to run.
[The forum corrupted the message when I tried to specify the real URL
with brackets. So brackets must be powerful ju-ju.]
> So when I put this in the address bar on my home network 'Netgear' it
> uses the DirecTV.
I'll read that as, "When I put this URL into the address bar of some
Web browser or other on some computer or other on my LAN, it works as
expected." If it works that way, then it would seem that your
port-forwarding is ok, and it should work from the outside world (if you
use that same browser).
> But when I attempt from my cell phone (ie. the WAN), it doesn't work.
Different Web browsers could deal with these things differently.
(For example, most/all modern browsers will convert "\" to "/" in a URL,
but not all always did.)