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Port Forwarding: Protocol Type
My router/firewall wants me to specify a protocol type for port forwarding. The choices are things like ICMP(1), IGMP(2), TCP(6), etc. Or I can tell it "Custom IP Type". Anyone know which I should ...
I actually have not been able to get Photos II to work outside my network. I still believe the problem is related to properly setting up port forwarding on my SonicWall Firewall. The SonicWall device wants me to specify a "protocol" as well as a port to forward. I went with the above advice to use TCP as a protocol which I thought fixed the problem, but it doesn't. Is there consensus that TCP is the correct protocol? Does anyone know why TCP has a "(6)" following it? Is that the normal port for TCP? I thought HTTP would be the protocol to use, but it isn't an option to use it to create what SonicWall calls a "service object", which is necessary to create the necessary NAT rules.
Photos II is a neat little add-on that works nicely at home...I just wish I could configure my firewall so i could share my photos with someone other than my wife!
Photos II is a neat little add-on that works nicely at home...I just wish I could configure my firewall so i could share my photos with someone other than my wife!
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