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dg1256
Jun 12, 2012Aspirant
Cannot Access Duo Frontview via internet
Hello I have been using a Duo for 2 years which sits on a network with a Vigor Draytek ADSL 2800 router. The PC's on the network have the shares mapped to drive letters. On port forwarding I have 808...
StephenB
Jun 12, 2012Guru - Experienced User
Yes. if WAN port 443 is not forwarded, then you always need to specify the port in the https connection. I just create a bookmark in my browser that includes the non-standard port.
mdgm wrote: Some routers do allow you to port forward a high port e.g. port something like 11111 to e.g. port 444. If you do that though you have to specify the port each time you want to connect as when you use a https address it is assumed you are connecting to port 443 unless you tell your web browser otherwise.
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