Port Forwarding w/ Tomato & WRT54GL

[Jschmuck2]

Will not work for me - at least as far as those port-checking websites online go. UPNP seems to work fine but when I manually enter a port or range of ports to forward to my internal LAN IP, the web keeps telling me that they're blocked.

Even now, when I briefly dropped my PC into a DMZ, it STILL says they're blocked. Any thoughts?

This is all on W7 with the Windows Firewall disabled.

 

[Fardringle]

Have you tried actually connecting to the open ports using the appropriate program? I have found that many of the online scanners report that ports are closed or hidden at the same time that I am actively connected to those ports.

 

[JackMDS]

DD-WRT, and Tomato allow Out to the Internet, and back Into the LAN connection.

Thus the best way is to get free account on a Dynamic DNS service and actually test the applications.

Example, I have an account jack.dyn.com

I started on one computer that its IP is 192.168.10.10 a VNC server on port 55555

Step one, using the VNC viewer on another computer I tyep into the VNC viewer 192.168.10.10:55555

If I get control it means that locally every thing is OK, and I can proceed.

Step two, (assuming that on the Router port 55555 is forwarded toward 192.168.10.10) I type into the VNC viewer jack.dyn.com:55555 (do not add http:// or www.)

If it works it would work from any place on the Internet.

Other applications can be tested in a similar manner.

Please Note, many Routers do not support this In/Out/In capacity and thus testing has to be done from another location.

 

[Jschmuck2]

Well, you were right about those port checking websites. I downloaded a port checking program from Portforward.com to run locally on my machine and it's telling me that the appropriate ports are open. How about that. Stupid thing.

Thanks guys.