Topic: E-Smith 6.0 Beta 3 Port Forwarding

[Keith]

Hi,

I'm having trouble with the new port forwarding feature in E-Smith 6.0 Beta 3. I've entered an IP that has been assigned by E-Smith to a Windows machine with BulletProof FTP Server listening on port 99. Specifically, 192.168.200.55. OK, so I've gone to the server manager and clicked on port forwarding. I've made a new port forward with the protocol TCP, source port 69 (I've tried others), Destination Host IP Address 192.168.200.55, destination port 99.

OK, I saved the changes and go into my FTP client. I enter my E-Smith server's domain name, enter the port 69, and hit connect. It gives this error:

Finding Host [my domain] ...
Connecting to 192.168.200.65:69
Connect failure

I've tried changing the ports, the protocol, and even a remote ftp as the destination IP.

Can someone help? I'm really stuck here.

Thanks a lot,
Keith

[Terry]

Port Forwarding only forwards requests from the external interface to the internal destination.  It will not forward from the internal interface to an internal destination.  Have someone outside of your lan test it for you.

[Keith]

As weird as that is, it worked. Thanks!

[Terry]

Not wierd, design intent.

[Keith]

Well I don't like it...

[Dan Brown]

Why would you need to forward from internal to internal?  Just connect directly to the other internal host.  In any case, if you think it's behaving improperly, this (like all issues with the beta) should be reported to smebugs@mitel.com.

[Terry]

Keith wrote:
>
> Well I don't like it...

Feel free to rewrite the config files and forward on the internal side as well.  If you can do that I'd like a copy, I know I can't do it!