Topic: Port-forwarding from inside

[Bjarni]

Hi,

I am using SME V5.1.2

I had to change my external Network Settings so that DHCP-Client now is ENABLED, because my ISP changed their settings.

I use Port-forwarding (Port 8080) to redirect incomming Port 8080 to my IIS on my local-PC: 172.16.1.9

Before (When DHCP-Client was DISABLED) I could connect to my IIS from another local computer by writing:

http://:8080/

Now (after DHCP-Client was ENABLED) I can only connect to my IIS from OUTSIDE.

Why?

How do I change my settings to get it to work from inside again?

/bjarni

[Bill Talcott]

You should not be able to portforward from the internal interface. It just shouldn't be possible for it to work (on any device that I've seen even, not just SME). You can use the Addresses & Hostnames panel to reserve a specific IP/hostname for the PC running IIS, then access it that way...

[Bjarni]

I know that some of you says, that it is not possible. Anyway it WAS possible on my SME 5.1.2 before I changed the DHCP-client on the external network. Belive it or not ;o)

Futhermore I had the same working when I was running on a SCO Unixbox.

I am not sure what you mean by: "use the Addresses & Hostnames panel to reserve a specific IP/hostname for the PC running IIS". I have given my IIS-NT-server a static IP and specified it on SME-server.

/bjarni

[Bill Talcott]

If you use the hostnames panel to reserve an IP to the IIS box, and name it www2 (the same as its internet DNS name) or whatever, you can still access it via hostname.