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Title: Port Forwarding Not Occuring
Post by: Craig on September 17, 2002, 11:30:35 AM

Hi

I have a problem with the port forwarding RPM I cant get it to actually work also the port opener rpm doesnt seem to have any effect either I portscan the machine and the ports that are opened or forwarded via the two rpm's dont appear on the scan results I have searched the archives and tried everything I know of so .... help!! (please)

Title: Re: Port Forwarding Not Occuring
Post by: Rob Wellesley on September 17, 2002, 02:10:37 PM

Hi

I am interested to follow this thread so have to post something to get email replies.

rob

Title: Re: Port Forwarding Not Occuring
Post by: Craig on September 17, 2002, 04:30:49 PM

I have tried EVERYTHING even a netstats list doesn't display them as open. Admittedly I am a Linux lamer and have little idea of what I am doing but I have scanned the posts for hints and can find nothing that makes the bugger work!!!!

Title: Re: Port Forwarding Not Occuring
Post by: Bill Talcott on September 17, 2002, 05:44:40 PM

You are scanning from the outside right? It will only forward from the external interface, not the internal one.

Title: Re: Port Forwarding Not Occuring
Post by: Benny on September 18, 2002, 01:59:23 AM

May I ask where you got that RPM ?

Title: Re: Port Forwarding Not Occuring
Post by: Rob Wellesley on September 18, 2002, 02:39:14 AM

http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/portforwarding-0.0.1/dmc-mitel-portforwarding-0.0.1-4.noarch.rpm

(one line)

Title: Re: Port Forwarding Not Occuring
Post by: Craig on September 18, 2002, 04:07:44 PM

Hiya Bill

Yeah I scanned it from work and those ports are certainly not open or forwarding and I gotta say this is a hell of a grey hair generator just to open up port 8888 for webcam32 streaming!!! :)

Title: Re: Port Forwarding Not Occuring
Post by: sabu on September 19, 2002, 03:34:21 PM

Hmm, port forwarding was working for me. My server's net went down, and i decided to put more ram in aswell. I turn my server back on, and port forwarding isn't working...


Anyone got any ideas?

sabu

Title: Re: Port Forwarding Not Occuring
Post by: ryan on September 19, 2002, 07:28:44 PM

I recall reading in this forum about port forwarding problems on 5.5.  I use 5.1.2 & port forwarding without problem.  I suggest you set up a test 5.1.2 machine to see if the problem is with your server or something else.  

good luck,

ryan

Title: Re: Port Forwarding Not Occuring
Post by: Nathan Fowler on September 27, 2002, 12:53:49 AM

I've also noted problems, you can always use a separate binary called 'redir'.  A thread is located here:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=5233.msg18479#msg18479

An example syntax for port forwarding SMTP 25 to an alternate port can be found here:

http://www.e-smith.org/bboard//read.php?f=1&i=18304&t=18236

Also, to find specific port numbers for third party programs, I recommend:

http://www.tsmservices.com/masq

Hope this helped,
Nathan