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Title: Open non stealthed port.
Post by: jkyme on February 09, 2006, 01:59:36 PM

My SME 6 server does everything I ask of it except one thing!

Server is set up as server gate way.

I need to either redirect ports 80 and 443 to another server or open port 8080 and forward it to another server.

I can open the port without any problems, but any attempt to forward it via the server manager panel end up it it being stealthed.

Is the any way around this?

Thanks in advance

Title: Open non stealthed port.
Post by: byte on February 09, 2006, 02:06:16 PM

You would need to do the port forwarding on the other machine i.e if you use ipcop or something then use the port forwarding on that...

Using sme in server only mode doesn't allow use of port forwarding...

Title: Open non stealthed port.
Post by: jkyme on February 09, 2006, 02:46:58 PM

Thanks for the reply.

SME is runing as server/gateway!

Title: Open non stealthed port.
Post by: jfarschman on February 09, 2006, 03:14:03 PM

Hi,

  You are going to have a hard time forwarding a port that belongs to the SME Server.  You have to kill that port on the SME first, or port forwarding will not work.

  However, I don't think you want to port forward at all.  You can probably use proxypass to get this done.  Do a search and see it it works for you.  Basically, it will redirect an URL to a different IP Address on the LAN.   I believe it only handle web traffic.

  If you need non web traffic, try the port forwarding, or try a contrib called 1-to-1 NAT which will take bind a second IP to the outside interface and forward all traffic to that (new) IP into an IP on your LAN.  I'm currently having a little trouble with this on SME7, but it's a cool contrib.

  Hope this helps.

Title: Re: Open non stealthed port.
Post by: CharlieBrady on February 09, 2006, 04:00:46 PM

Quote from: "jkyme"

I can open the port without any problems, but any attempt to forward it via the server manager panel end up it it being stealthed.

Is the any way around this?

If the port shows up as "stealthed" when tested from outside, then that indicates that the target machine is not responding to connection attempts. That means either than it is firewalled and dropping packets on that port, or its default route is set incorrectly. The SME server can't forward reply packets which it never sees.