BT Infinity - Port Forwarding and Vodafone Sure Si...

I have been lucky enough to upgrade from BT Total Broadband (Home Hub 1 and then 2) to BT Infinity (Home Hub 2 with Openreach box). I can remember having major problems with port forwarding with my previous installation, even though the step by step instructions given by BT regarding application sharing was accurate. I resorted to using TELNET and then certain key commands that ensured it did work. A forum simular to this one saved the day. Now I have the new BT Infinity box of tricks and I appear to have the same problem and now I cannot use TELNET to tear down these restrictions. I have switched off the Firewall within the menu system but realise that this is still operational in some kind of way. All incoming data is still being blocked. I need to make sure the following ports are open to the World so that my Vodafone Sure Signal works: TCP: 8 TCP: 50 TCP: 123 UDP: 500 UDP: 4500 I have also enable the VPN clamping as suggested. Can anyone help me? Vodafone can only advise me on these port numbers the rest is ISP driven. Do I need to speak to an engineer? Do I need to TELNET the Home Hub some how? Thank you in advance.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

There is a nationwide problem with Sure Signal connecting through BTinternet which has been ongoing since the 27th. It doesn't seem to be a problem through other internet providers nor does it seem to be specific to any particular versions of Sure Signal or BT Home Hub.
There's no point trying to talk to BT customer services about it - the idiot I was speaking to yesterday insisted that I needed to change the Wi-Fi channel on my Home Hub in order to get my (wired) Sure Signal working again.
Vodafone's customer services are not quite as sh*t as BT's but not much more help. They do, at least, acknowledge that there is a problem and that it is being worked on by engineers (not sure if it is Voda or BT engineers?) but can only say that the "hope it is fixed in the next 24 hours."
If you are thinking of speaking to BT's "customer support specialists" about this, I suggest you poke yourself in the eye instead; it's as likely to fix the problem, will take less time and probably be less painful.

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One definite probllem with Port Forwarding is if you attempt to specify a range of addresses. I have failed to get this to work on both my hubs. In my case I was trying to forward (say) 8021-8022 to 21-22, and the router insisted on forwarding both 8021 and 8022 to port 21. The cure is to set up each port as a separate rule within the same user-defined application.
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If port 21 is closed on your router (i.e. you have no port forwarding in place) you will see the message attempting to connect to mydomain.dyndns.web.com... and, after a while that will time out, with Could not open connection to the host, on port 21: Connect failed. If you do have your port forwarding set up correctly then your application will respond in some appropriate mannerr. However, you do need to understand what youre doing, because the response of an application that is expecting HTTP data is simply to do nothing! You will probably get a blank screen. If you type GET / HTTP/1.1 [note spaces] (which is not echoed to your screen, so be careful not to mistype it) you will receive a page of HTTP response data and HTML data. Thus proving that your port forwarding is working.
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Yes I did a hard reset in order to set it up. I then used the Airport Utility to give it a Network name and base station name that was different from the Wireless AC one upstairs. I left everything else set to defaults and used 'Create a new wireless network'. Added some passwords and then let it boot itself. It all worked ok but as I mentioned I can then only access this downstairs network. The Wireless AC one then refuses to connect afterwards. The only way I can get the Wireless AC to work is to switch off the Wireless N one and then reboot the Wireless AC.
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http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/1497/linksysbg2.jpg
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Port forwarding requires you to give each PC on the network its own unique static IP address.. Although there is ssh port forwarding that can be set dynamically. Most users only have the option of static ip port forwarding.
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Port Triggering
This is a way of Dynamically assigning a service to a port WHEN it is required by an outgoing service. The port is initially not allowed so nothing can get in and you are protected by your network.
A good example of this is when using Yahoo! voice .. the voice works fine for a few minutes after you connect to Yahoo! then Yahoo! sends some kind of packet that requires a response from your PC... The packet is allowed in through your router no prob but the outgoing reply is not authorized to open a port on the router and is thus blocked.
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Xbox 360
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Network Troubleshooting:
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Disconnect your router and try the game. If it works regularly at this point something about your router may not be completely compatible with the specific needs of this game. Check with your router manufacturer and Microsoft's Xbox Live Connection Issues page for additional steps that may need to be done to resolve the issue you are having. You can also verify that you have an Xbox Live compatible router.
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ouman88 wrote:
Whoa....this just went way over my head.... I already have 6.1 installed for my Airport Utility.
Read again what I wrote.. 6.1 is the problem.. or part of it.
You need to install the earlier 5.6 version which I have given you explicit instructions to do.
I have done something now and can not connect the XBOX at all now....unless you can provide me step by step directions I may have to call Apple Support.
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I am not that sure that Apple Support will have any idea.
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Here's my question, when I set up his router to forward the ports so this will work, do I use the ports for apple remote desktop or VNC? (The ports overlap (5900) but are different.)
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ok, but in his prefs for apple remote desktop, it gives the static IP address that we set as the address other people can use, so... any thoughts?
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Netcomm NB1300 router and Airport Express.
I want to use and old G3 mac running 10.3.9 as a server for HTTP and FTP. The Mac is currently connected via Airport but I can connect it via Ethernet if necessary.
I understand that I will have to activate Port Forwarding on my Router with Ports 21 and 80 to allow external Internet access to the G3. I will also have to configure DHCP Manually for a Static IP address and probably link up with a Free DNS service to maintain reliable access to the G3.
I have other computers on the network, two Macs (Ethernet / 10.3.9 & Airport 10.4.11) and two PC's (one with Vista, one with XP / both on Airport). Only one of the extra Macs is connected via ethernet, the rest are connected via Airport.
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I am now assuming I will be able to access the 'server' from an external location. Very optimistic! But I can't test that for a couple of days.
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http://validator.w3.org/
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I am trying to setup a network printer that can be printed to from anywhere in the world. My organization has 5 static IP addresses given to us by our ISP. Four of those I have on computers, and one of them I have on my Linksys router (WRT54G v.8).
What I want to do is be able to setup a printer on my router that I can print to from anywhere I have an internet connection. My wireless router's static IP address is 74.172.54.XXX - The address on my network is 192.168.7.1 - I have a printer statically assigned the IP address 192.168.7.2 - and I have a port forwarding for port 70 to forward to 192.168.7.2
In theory, I would think that now I could print to 74.172.54.XXX:70 and have no problems. But that doesn't seem to be working. Even printing to 192.168.7.1:70 doesn't seem to work either.
Also, the printer has a web GUI interface that if I type http://192.168.7.1/ into my browser it comes up, so in theory I would think typing http://74.172.54.XXX:70 into my browser it should come up (but it doesn't nor does http://192.168.7.1:70).
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I will include two screen snapshots of what I am talking about:
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Is the router setup to accept static connections?
I have my router set up to accept both, so from 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.192 the addresses are static the other addresses are given by DHCP.
If you do not define a range and the address your laptop has as static IP conflicts with the address given by DHCP your loose ... as in you get no address.
Set up of that feature may depend on your type of router but usually any decent router will have that capability ... read your manual for specifics about your unit.
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I have a wireless network set up through a Time Capsule. My iBook is connected to this network via Airport. In addition, I have a computer with no wireless connected to my laptop via Ethernet. I have my System Preferences set up to Share Internet with Built-In Ethernet. The problem is this. I want to use the second computer (which accesses the Internet fine) as a server. The Airport does not recognize the second computer as a Client, but does see the iBook. I believe I need to Forward Ports to the iBook (local IP: 10.0.1.5) and then forward them again with the iBook to the other computer which has the local IP 196.168.2.2.
Is my thinking right in this? How would I need to configure this to make it work as I've explained?
If I'm unclear I can clarify.
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Always
12345
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WAN1
64.106.24.74 ~ 64.106.24.74
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Always
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Action
Service
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Source
Destination
Time
Day
Delete
12345
Allow
All Traffic [0]
WAN1
64.106.24.74 ~ 64.106.24.74
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Always
12345
Allow
All Traffic [0]
WAN1
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Always
12345
Allow
SIP [5060]
WAN1
64.106.24.74 ~ 64.106.24.74
192.168.1.55 ~ 192.168.1.55
Always
12345
Allow
RTP [10000]
WAN1
64106.24.74 ~ 64.106.24.74
192.168.1.55 ~ 192.168.1.55
Always
12345
Allow
All Traffic [0]
WAN1
208.180.146.205 ~ 208.180.146.205
Any
Always
Allow
All Traffic [0]
LAN
Any
Any
Always
Deny
All Traffic [0]
WAN1
Any
Any
Always
Deny
All Traffic [0]
WAN2
Any
Any
Always
Deny
All Traffic [0]
DMZ
Any
192.168.1.0 ~ 192.168.1.255
Always
Allow
All Traffic [0]
DMZ
Any
Any
Always

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