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LofferBoy
Aug 13, 2021Follower
port forwarding
What services i need to run befor port forwarding?
please help me
My ISP supports port forwarding and the router as well but still i am not able to reach my pc over the internet.
I have already enabled the "respond to ping on internet port"
and "Remote Management".
1 Reply
- > What services i need to run befor port forwarding? - I don't know what that means. What, exactly, are you trying to do? - > please help me - You first? What, exactly, are you trying to do? - > [...] i am not able to reach my pc over the internet. - "reach" _how_? - "not able" is not a useful problem description. It does not say 
 what you did. It does not say what happened when you did it. As usual,
 showing actual actions (commands) with their actual results (error
 messages, LED indicators, ...) can be more helpful than vague
 descriptions or interpretations.- > I have already enabled the "respond to ping on internet port" 
 > and "Remote Management".
 Unrelated to "reach my pc".- > Capture1.PNG - Are you running a web server (on your "my pc")? There's no reason to 
 hide that IP address. (What about port 443?)- For the usual problems with port forwarding, see: