Opening ports on a router

Post by **saturn** » Tue May 10, 2005 9:39 am

I got a wireless DSL router/modem (Alcatel Speedtouch 580) and I need to open a few ports for eMule (port 4662). I recall something about forwarding my static ip. Is it the NAPT or DHCP....?

This router shields me all too well

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Post by **saturn** » Tue May 10, 2005 10:17 am

Thx to Juggernaut I have figured it out

NAPT manager in the router menu
You need your internal router ip and your external ip, and the port number you want to open of course.

I feel like a noobie, but the documentation is crappy if you want to find about this quickly.

Post by **saturn** » Tue May 10, 2005 10:51 am

lol, the motherfucking routerbitch closes the NAPT entry after short while again. It listens for a few seconds, i'm saving the entry and then I'm finding it closed again. %^&*^*&

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue May 10, 2005 4:11 pm

Post by **saturn** » Tue May 10, 2005 4:18 pm

the port doesn't stay open though I'm saving the setting while the port's still open

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue May 10, 2005 4:42 pm

check yer IM, doc.

Post by **saturn** » Tue May 10, 2005 6:17 pm

I finally figured it out so I'll share it with you all.

eMule was working fine till a few days ago. Somehow my highID was changed to lowID, which basically means that some ports are closed for eMule. You can still connect and download, but at considerably lower speeds and since you can't connect two lowID's, you will have to wait longer in the queues.

So with some help from juggs I was changing the NAPT forwarding and still it wasn't working. The ports were closed again somehow.

Then I remembered that my connected my Powerbook on my home Wifi network last Friday. Of course, the DHCP server assigns internal LAN ip's to computers on your network and the usual 10.0.0.150 ip was changed to 10.0.0.151 on my PC.

So, after changing that everything works fine again. I've learned a lot about NAPT and DHCP today !@#$

Ellemieke Vermolen says "Thx Juggs!"
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Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue May 10, 2005 8:54 pm

you're quite welcome, sir. glad you got sorted.

*right click's, saves as*