Topic: Port Forwarding Question

[Black]

Inside the panel is a Port Forwarding Tab. Say I wanna my log into a website that needs port 8080 open. Do I:

Protocol - TCP - YES

Source Port(s) (What does this mean?)

Destination Host IP Address (what if this is my websites admin panel I need to log into? do I put the address in from the address bar orleave this blank?)

Destination Port(s)  Isnt this my computer on the LAN? if so If I need to access port 8080 on a website on the internet why do I need to fill this in?


How am I looking at this wrong when everyone else "gets it"?

[psdata]

Hello Black,

THe potforwaring is only use for trafic from the outsite to a insite adress.

Example you have a second webserver on you localnet and you want to gife user's externaly acces to this box.

Then you say make a forward from my external port 81 to my internal(ipadress) on port 80

The external user (www.yourdomanin.com:81) can now acces on port 81 the intenal server on his standard port number

So you don't needed foor you own outgoing trafic

Goodluck

John

[Black]

Thanks so what about me needing to log into a webpage on the internet that requires port 8080 be open? Just follow the FAQ on this site under Administration FAQ??:

* How to open ports on the Squid Proxy Server

mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/squid/squid.conf
cp /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/squid/squid.conf/20ACL15Safe_ports /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/squid/squid.conf/20ACL15Safe_ports

Edit /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/squid/squid.conf/20ACL15Safe_ports with whichever text editor you feel comfortable with (vi or pico) and add whatever ports you wish to allow, to the end of the line of text.

Save the changes, then...

/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/squid/squid.conf
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save


Is this the correct way?

[psoren]

Hi

Do you want to go from your local net out through you SME server to the internet, and access a website which is accessed via port 8080?

In that case type in your browser: http://the_name_of_site:8080

You don't need to configure anything in your server for that.

If i get you wrong, try to make it clear what it is that you want to do.

Per

[Black]

Yes thats it exactly. when I tried that it would not connect so the company said I needed to open the port. I actually did that at one time by bypassing the template stuff and went directly to Squid.conf and putthe ports there under safe ports and it worked..