Routers and Port Mapping. Please Help.

[JackMDS]

I am trying to write a page about the Port Opening process through Router?s NAT Firewall .

We refer to the process as Port Opening, or Port Mapping.

Unfortunately every Router?s manufacture finds it important to use his own terminology for the setting.

Example: SMC Barricade refers to it as? Service Ports on a Virtual Server.

Please Post the name and model of your Cable/DSL Router, and the name of the Menu that handles this process.

TIA.

 

[skyking]

SMC 7004VBWR

Via the web interface:
advanced setup--NAT--virtual server
also, for special applications that require multiple connections, go to:
Special Applications

Netgear MR 814

Port forwarding
there is a dropdown menu for services, with:
FTP
TELNET
HTTP
and an applications listing below, with:
NETMEETING
CU-SEEME
and a games listing, with:
HALF-LIFE
QUAKE 3

There is a button for "add custom service" for all the rest.
It has a place for you to put in the service name (E.G. Remote assistance)
A starting port and an ending port.
A server IP.
Even if you leave DHCP enabled on your computers, you may reserve an IP in the MR 814.
First, go to attached devices to see what the computer's IP is.
Go to LAN IP setup, look for address reservation.
Reserve that IP. This means that no other machine can hijack it via dhcp and divert your forwarded ports.
This is highly unlikely, DHCP servers tend to hand out the same IP to the same MAC address every time, but Netgear put it in there, so I use it.

 

[skyking]

up for someone with siemens, dlink, linksys, etc to fill in!

 

[kt]

Siemens SpeedStream 2624:
Advanced -> Virtual Servers

From there you can select the internal machine and ports (internal and external) to map.

 

[JackMDS]

Thanks skying and kt.

Any more?

 

[spiridion]

Webramp 700s
Access->Services
For Preset Port Forwarding (FTP, WEB, SMTP,POP)
If you want to add a Service that's not listed it's
Access - >Add Service

Linksys BEFWS114 Version 1
Advanced -> Port Forwarding

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: kt
Siemens SpeedStream 2624:
Advanced -> Virtual Servers

From there you can select the internal machine and ports (internal and external) to map.

Same for Siemens SpeedStream 2604.

Also, here is a nice list of ports common applications use.

 

[JackMDS]

I wonder where is the Linksys "Rockz" gang when you need them.

The most prevalent Cable/DSL Router, and no one knows where is the "Port opening"?

 

[Lord Evermore]

What "we" refers to it as port opening? That's silly, it's not opening the port. 🙂

Netgear and Zyxel (just a modified version of Netgear's firmware) refer to it as SUA (Single User Account) Server Setup.

Netopia calls them "Exported Services" now, though they don't have a market for home routers. 🙂

Cisco's big routers of course doesn't give you any easy way to do it and requires several config lines. 🙂 The DSL "modem" firmware from Cisco just calls them NAT entries ("set nat entry <stuff>" being the command).

Linksys actually calls it Forwarding (on the configuration screen tab) and since it goes to a page telling you to specify the ports, it means Port Forwarding.

 

[JackMDS]

Thanks, Lord Evermore.

I think I have a Start.

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D-Link, Belkin. Microsoft, Hawking, Orinoco, Buffalo?

Anyone?

 

[skyking]

I'll get the microsoft stuff, and d-link, in a couple of weeks or so.

 

[q2261]

Dlink DI-704P Advanced -> Virtual Server