Re: wn2500RP Port Forwarding

jrswanson91 · ‎2015-10-15

I hope someone can help, I am trying to establish port forwarding to my home server from outside my LAN. I have the WNDR3400v2 router with the WN2500RPv2 extender connected to it. I am trying to establish port forwarding to my pc at 192.168.1.10 connected to the WN2500RPv2. However, there is no port forwarding in the WN2500RPv2 extender. So I set up a rule in the WNDR3400v2 to forward to my computer at 192.168.1.10, with no luck. Maybe the server cannot run off of the extender? Maybe I need to use another router not and extender? What is my problem?

jrswanson91 · ‎2015-10-29

@ElaineM

Thank you for all your help, I have solved this problem. FINALLY! The problem was my firewall and anti-virus. Once I provided rules to accept all incoming traffic and turned off my antivirus, all works well! That was very grueling and time consuming. The portforwarding works from the modem to the router through the extender to the pc and it works.

Thank you again for trying to help.

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jrswanson91 · ‎2015-10-18

Anyone?

ElaineM · ‎2015-10-19

Welcome to the community, @jrswanson91

How is the WN2500RP connected to the router? Wired or wirelessly?

Have you tried connecting that pc with 192.168.1.10 be connected to the router directly and see if the ports are open for it?

Is the WNR2500RP correctly configured? Do you have internet access through it?

The WNR2500RP will not have Port Forwarding feature because it's just a range extender. It is correct that you have opened the port on the router since it's the main connection and routers have that feature.

jrswanson91 · ‎2015-10-19

Thank you for your response @ElaineM! The wn2500RP is connected wirelessly to the router. It is also set up correctly as I can reach the internet. I have not tried connecting the PC to the router directly, because it would take a rather long ethernet cord which is what I am trying to avoid. Thats why I am wondering if the router sends the incoming traffic to the extender and then drops it rather than the pc directly through the extender?

ElaineM · ‎2015-10-20

You're welcome.

This troubleshooting will not be easy.

It's best to isolate at this point to figure out which one has a problem (router or extender).

I know it would be a pain to have it directly connected but it's one way for us to find out whether it's really opening the port or not.

Looks like that there's no problem with the extender cause you can get online with it. It's simply working like a switch, everything passes through it as expected.

By the way, what is the port that you have forwarded? Can you use a laptop to test this?

jrswanson91 · ‎2015-10-20

So I have tried a bunch of different ports as I found out that some ISP's block port 80. I am a computer science student trying to set up my own apache server to run some applications. I will report back with what I find out of the trouble shooting tomorrow. Thank you again for your help @ElaineM!

jrswanson91 · ‎2015-10-21

@ElaineM: I have bypassed my extender using a very long ethernet cord. Using this rule below inside my router:

I changed my apache2 server to listen on port 8181, and my computer shows that it is open and listening on a tcp connection. So it is the router indeed, and not the extender. This should be a good sign, although I do not know what I am missing. I can access my application through my LAN simply by 192.168.1.32:8181/foo.php, My public ip is 66.69.217.132, and when using http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/ and testing port 8181 it shows that the port is closed. Hopefully you now fully understand my problem and can help me. This is my first server I am trying to configure since doing one in school a few years back.

ElaineM · ‎2015-10-22

Thanks for that information.

Have you tried setting the server to DMZ?

Disable the Port Forwarding, then set the server to DMZ. The DMZ is under Advanced > WAN Setup

Another thing you may try is to bypass the router. Connect the server directly to the modem and see if it will work.

Let us know what happens.

jrswanson91 · ‎2015-10-27

I have tried connecting directly to the modem and setting up another rule exactly the same as above with the different but correct ip. However, I still cannot reach my server!

I have set the Default DMZ server to my apache workstation still with no success. I am lost here and have no clue why nothing is working.

ElaineM · ‎2015-10-27

If you have bypassed the router and stil it does not allow the access then you may want to check with your ISP.

That's the main reason why it won't let you access it with the router in place.

jrswanson91 · ‎2015-10-27

And ask them if they are blocking all incoming traffic on all ports?

ElaineM · ‎2015-10-28

That's right. This should be working first through the modem.

If this can't be done through the modem then it will not work either with the router.

jrswanson91 · ‎2015-10-29

@ElaineM

Thank you for all your help, I have solved this problem. FINALLY! The problem was my firewall and anti-virus. Once I provided rules to accept all incoming traffic and turned off my antivirus, all works well! That was very grueling and time consuming. The portforwarding works from the modem to the router through the extender to the pc and it works.

Thank you again for trying to help.

Re: wn2500RP Port Forwarding

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