Opening up a port...

dellfanatic

I've been trying to open up port 54000 on my new PC and the netgear router which should already be open. How do I do this, I've delved into the windows firewall (yes I'm on vista) and tried to alter the rules but it still shows up as blocked. Any ideas?

alanclose

On my router I opened up ports by firstly in the content filtering section going to services and adding a custom service. I then went to Firewall rules and added an inbound service rule

dellfanatic

There's an option saying "Send to LAN Server ... __ . __ . __ . __" what does this mean and what do I put in these boxes?

THanks again

alanclose

Its the ip of your PC in my case its 192.168.0.2 - the router is .0.1

if you right click on your lan connection in network places and pick status and support it should give you your ip

dellfanatic

I'm connected to the router through the ethernet cable, my PC didn't come with a wireless card Not sure where to look!

http://i17.tinypic.com/4uj1do2.jpg

EDIT - I clicked on the router options menu and looked under attached devices, it was .03

Now however I'm getting this when I do the test:

Testing port 50400 ...
NAT Error - Connect attempt to 172.203.173.88:50400 (your computer) timed out after 20 seconds. This means your port is probably closed.

:wall:

alanclose

have you enabled the rule

also check which port you wanted - your first post stated it was 54000 and the test was for 50400

dellfanatic

Silly me :rotfl: It was a typo in the first post, it is 50400 I'm looking to unblock and that's the one listed in the windows firewall and router, all are enabled. The windows firewall has 50400 listed under "Local" and "Remote" whatever that means, I can't think what else to do :wall:

alanclose

have you tried temporarily disabling the windows firewall to see if it works. It might narrow down your problem. Also - you don't have any 3 party firewalls do you?

alanclose

is it a udp or tcp service and what site are you using to test it and I'll see if I can get it to work

dellfanatic

Brilliant idea! I changed the firewall state of the "private profile" to off. I know below it says on but I took screenshot after the nat test said it was successful:

Testing port 50400 ... OK !
Congratulations, you fixed it!

If only I could run without a firewall :rotfl:



What exactly is private profile? I'll poke around and see what I can find, but I've already tried the obvious settings All rules state private profile and there is a rule for UDP and TCP, so not sure what else I can do!

dellfanatic

OK update, I ditched the current rules and created two new rules, entered port number and selected private, and then allow, clicked finish and hey presto! Thanks very very much for your help I've learned a lot today!!

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