port forwarding help!

jsf jfreeman at gmail.com
Fri Dec 24 21:31:01 EST 2004


Hi Bill, 

see below

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:20:11 -0500, Bill McGonigle
<bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> On Dec 24, 2004, at 8:14 PM, jsf wrote:
> 
> > Where I'm having problems is port 80!... No matter what I try, on the
> > router or on the laptop, I cannot seem to get requests to port 80
> > forwarded, by the router, to the laptop.
> >
> > They just sort of freeze at the router.  I see the hits in the router
> > log.. but I can't figure out whether:
> >
> > a) they're being held at the router or
> > b) forwarded by the router but stopped by the laptop.
> 
> The router itself listens for port 80 on at least one interface, for
> management.  Which firmware are you using, linksys, ewrt, openwrt,
> sveasoft?  Can you ssh to the router and look at netstat and iptables?

Linksys.. basically, the same firmware it came with (plus a firmware update)
> 
> I'd assign the laptop the router's IP address and remove the router to
> figure out whether it can respond on port 80 - if you can telnet to
> port 80 on the router's IP from your server in Boston you'll at least
> know that your laptop is OK.

I've tried that... the laptop has no problem responding on port 80 if
it's connected directly to the Cable Modem...

:-(

J.

> 
> -Bill
> 
>



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