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Software => HFS ~ HTTP File Server => router & port problems => Topic started by: hpotter936 on June 19, 2008, 11:56:37 AM

Title: port fowarding problems
Post by: hpotter936 on June 19, 2008, 11:56:37 AM

im having problems getting port 80 fowarded to my computer heres what my set up looks like
Internet->Modem(SpeedTouch 530)->Wireless Router(Dlink di-524)------>My Computer(Windows Vista Sp1)
i can foword the port from my wireless router easily but cant get it all the way from the modem to my computer. any one have any ideas? thanks

Title: Re: port fowarding problems
Post by: Giant Eagle on June 19, 2008, 02:56:44 PM

If your modem also has a configuration menu, then you need to forward the port in your modem to your router, not to your pc. You then have to configure your router to forward the port to your computer.

Modem => forward port 80 to Router
Router => forward port 80 to PC

Title: Re: port fowarding problems
Post by: Mark on June 25, 2008, 05:12:12 AM

How do you find out the IP address of your cable modem in this configuration?

And when you port forward the Cable Modem to your Router, What IP address do you use? - The external IP address or the Internal IP address?

Thanks!

Title: Re: port fowarding problems
Post by: rejetto on June 25, 2008, 10:33:44 AM

you don't need the internal IP of your modem, just of the router and pc.

the external address HFS will find is the internet address of your modem (different from the internal one, if it exists), and it's the one you have to tell to friends.