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Help me configure port-forwarding

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Wag

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I can't figure out how to get secure FTP working on my FIOS Actiontech MI42WR router with FileZilla. I'm trying to configure active FTP mode, and open up ports 60000-60500 on the router but for some reason every time I run the network test it tells me I'm still behind a firewall. Any tips on setting it up? I'm getting quite frustrated.
 
Well for one, you need something listening on that port. Are you currently running FTP?

Second, you shouldn't need 60000-60500 for FTP, it should be port 21.

Third, all the routers I have ever used with port forwarding specifies what IP address you want to point to on a port that is hosting a service. Did you do that?
 
VinylxScratches said:
@Wag first check that the ftp works localy over the Network.

Than try again fro the outside.

You to try from a remote location.

Trying Out and back iN through the Internet at the same location is Not supported by many Routers.

Do not forget to open the ports through the software Firewall too.

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secure means FTP with TLS/SSL

or ssh with ftp (SFTP).

Which one are you talking about because one uses standard FTP method and (duh) the other uses standard SSH method.

I would call the first one FTP secure and the ssh based one SecureFTP (SFTP) since my assumption after being around windows/unix/b2b/etc for 20 years if that you meant SFTP when you said secure ftp.

i've only seen ftp with TLS/SSL used in the warez scene (not that i know anything about that)
 
I'm not trying to set up a server, just getting the client to connect to a Auth TLS server. TLS is used in other situations than warez, but I'd like to get it working for other reasons.

The FIOS Actiontech router is a bitch to set-up properly. I can't figure out what I'm doing. It has an exception for FTP (in the port forwarding section) which opens up port 21>, and as far as I know I'm doing everything properly, but the Filezilla connect wizard still says I'm behind a firewall.
 
Might have to disable the firewall in the ActionTec. Verizon ships them with a firewall enabled, which, at least on my DSL Westell 327W, was in fact a firewall proper, over and above the normal NAT, which may additionally block connections, especially incoming.
 
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