Port forwarding causes base station to restart

Hi guys
I have purchased an AirPort Extreme Wireless Base Station. Besides its good looks and everything I have run into a little irritation.
When I want to forward a port to my local IP and clicks update the router automatically restarts. I can remember when I had my Linksys router it just updated the port scheme without restarting. Is it really true that it isn't the case with the AirPort Extreme?
801.11n Wi-Fi Windows XP Pro CD version 1.0

Hello there,
can you explain me how do you made Port Forwarding on the AirMac Extreme? I need to do it to connect my SlingBox (www.slingbox.com) to the AirMac to watch TV outside my Home. I can watch wireless in my Home but I get an error about PortForwarding to be connected to the Internet for outside viewing.
I have to PortForwarding only the Airmac or also the ADSL Modem I have connected to the Airmac?
Thank You

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The first basic troubleshooting procedure is to power cycle the entire network. If you have not already done this, now would be a good time.
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1) I had ethernet connected, I was unclear whether ethernet doing anything but desperate. Performing reset from MacBook with airport on.
2) Hard reset on Airport Express so that Airport Utility can find it. (i.e. press reset button for 5-10 seconds until light flashes amber 4 times. The factory reset did not seem to work.)
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Base station needs restarting regularly to get connection to internet again

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I've reverted to 5.5.1 firmware on my white round b/g extreme base station with internal modem in the hope it'd make restarting the base station on a regular basis not necessary, but it hasn't.
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I'm having an issue with my WRT1900AC router when port forwarding. I've talked to tech support about it, but I want to know if people in the community are experiencing the same thing and maybe conduct a small experiment.
Basically, the problem is that I'm trying to forward the ports for Xbox Live, and after doing so, the router becomes completely unresponsive: wired internet connection cuts off, wireless cuts off, and the router can no longer be accessed via the browser. Switching off the power off for 30 seconds, and then back on has no effect. All of the lights are on and stable, but nothing is working. The only way to get access back to the router and to make it work again is to reset using the button on the back. Support put me throught all the troubleshooting steps (firmware, reset, and the works) but it didnt have any effect.
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My question: Will I be able to simply use the WAN port as a "LAN" port since the Airport Extreme Base Station is being used as a WDS? It'd be awesome if the WAN port would become, essentially, a LAN port since it isn't being used.
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Not sure what to suggest that you may have not already tried. I would recommend that you start with the base station first to see if you can access the settings in AirPort Utility.
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OK, thanks for the clarification.
If you haven't already tried this, connecting an ethernet cable from your computer directly to one of the LAN ports on the base station will usually allow AirPort Utility to "see" the device.
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Please help.
I am able to surf the internet wirelessly on my two macs via my Airport Extreme Base Station. However I am unable to print wirelessly via my new HP printer connected to the USB port on the base station.
More worryingly I am unable to use Airport Admin Utility, Airport Set-Up Assistant or Airport Firmware Updater. Whenever I try to use one of these applications they experience errors communicating with the base station. I wonder if this is related to the printer problem?
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I may have a solution. I recently upgraded from an ibook to a macbook pro, and had the apple store "migrate" my files, etc., from one to the other. Got it home, everything's fine, airport conects, no problem. Go to print, can't print, decide to run Airport Setup Assistant to reconfigure (why not ?) and, lo. when it gets to "Network Configuation," I get : "An Error Occured while trying to communicate with this base station." Try all the usual tricks, including hard restart (internet connection is fine throughout), but the set-up assistant couldn't get past that point. Talked to apple support, we ran through all the options. He did suggest wiping the network preferences for airport off the harddrive and starting over, but since I had a good internet connection, I decided to wait.
So here's the thing: I got on Airport Administrative Utitity, clicked "Configure," and then "Network." I know next to zip about advanced options, but I decided to click "Distribute IP Adress" And under "Airport Client Computers" selected "share a single address." I left everything else alone. It reset to to the new options, and then, out of curiosity, I opened up set-up assistant, and TA-DA, I got past the screen I was stuck on, and when the next asked me if I wanted to keep all the same settings, I said yes. I kept selecting "Keep/yes", and then saved or okayed the changes. I then got a message that it would restart base station, I was also configured to print (my printer hp laser 1320 was plugged into the base station for all this), and, yes, it does now print.
I don't know if this is the hard way of doing something that I could have done more easily, and/or if even though I had an internet connection, the base station or the set up was still looking for the ibook. I'm sorry for such a long reply, but wanted to include all the steps I took and the exact situation. Does anyone know if I've endangered my security by checkig the "Distribute IP option ?" This is a home computer. Good Luck and hope this helps someone

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