Need advice about my router?

Deathkight · Post by **Deathkight** » 04 Oct 2005, 12:11

Hey i recently got a new router and i am really stuck on how to Port farward it.

My router is a netcomm and the model is NB5.

I have looked at the portfarwarding site but so far i havnt found much luck with it or i just havnt found.

If someone can possibly send me a link Or tell me how to portfarward to sping it will be greatly appreated.

Thanks heaps

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 04 Oct 2005, 13:17

http://www.portforward.com/english/rout ... lation.htm

Of course, the port for Spring is just 8452. That's it for Spring.

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 04 Oct 2005, 13:33

http://www.portforward.com/english/rout ... etcommNB5/

^^^ Is a better link. Generic instructions for any port, not for a specific game. So when it asks for the port, enter in 8452 for the port, and select UPD instead of TCP. It should work if you do that, if it doesnt come tell us again.

Deathkight · Post by **Deathkight** » 05 Oct 2005, 03:05

gnome what you gave me was port numbers for the Original Total annihilation i already seen all that.

What i need to knoe is...

Source Netmask ( what do i put here?)

Is this correct?

Destination Port End 8457
Destination Port Start: 8457
Destination Port Map: 8457

Are these 2 the Same???

Destination IP Address
Source IP Address

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 05 Oct 2005, 03:36

in the source netmask box you put 0.0.0.0 and your destination port end start and map #s are correct. also, you need to put the IP your roughter has your current PC assigned to in the Destination IP adress box or else your port forward will not work (for your PC at least...) There should be a page in your roughter menu somewhere that tells you the names and IP's of the devices it's running. You can find your IP there if you don't already know it.

Deathkight · Post by **Deathkight** » 05 Oct 2005, 04:16

ok so do i put my normal ip address for both of them?

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 05 Oct 2005, 04:43

Deathkight wrote:ok so do i put my normal ip address for both of them?

both of what?

Source netmask box: 0.0.0.0
Destination Port End 8457
Destination Port Start: 8457
Destination Port Map: 8457
Source IP adress: 0.0.0.0
Destination IP adress: IP adress your router assigned you your PC, should be listed somewhere in rougher's menus. Is NOT your external IP adress. Might be your internal IP adress, but is most likely an adress randomly assigned by your router.

Deathkight · Post by **Deathkight** » 05 Oct 2005, 06:22

ok i understand most of that now i am still having a bit of difficulty understanding the last bit.

What ip would my router be assigned to is it my static IP or just my ip address. ?

if its nether how can i find out that infomation.?

Thanks for your patients taskes me awile to understand these things

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 05 Oct 2005, 07:08

If you have a static IP address, then use that. If you have a dynamic IP address, you need to set up a static IP address for your self, or this will not work porperly.

http://www.portforward.com/networking/staticip.htm

Go there to find out how to set up a statip IP if you do not already have one.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 05 Oct 2005, 17:40

Maelstrom wrote:If you have a static IP address, then use that. If you have a dynamic IP address, you need to set up a static IP address for your self, or this will not work porperly.

http://www.portforward.com/networking/staticip.htm

Go there to find out how to set up a statip IP if you do not already have one.

It shouldn't be either of those... if you are talking about a "static IP" or "dynamic IP" you are talking about your external IP adress. You need to understand how a roughter LAN works. The roughter assigns an internal IP for every device on it, and then translates the data from the internal IP to external information readressing all the data to a new adress that is valid to the external web. Your internal IP is probably shared by hundreds of other computers on LANs, but your external IP is individual to your PC.

Your roughter doesn't recognize your PC by it's external IP because your external IP is only generated at the last stage of your roughters send commands. You need to find your internal IP or an assigned device IP somewhere within your roughters menus and THAT is the IP you need to enter into the destination IP adress.

For example, on my router there is a "DHCP" menu which contains a list of all the devices communicating with the router by name. Right beside thier name it says the IP the roughter has assigned to that device for internal communications.

Post by **Betalord** » 05 Oct 2005, 18:54

Just open Start->Run->cmd and type "ipconfig". Search for 192.168.x.y address and put it under "Destination IP adress".

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 05 Oct 2005, 18:57

Betalord wrote:Just open Start->Run->cmd and type "ipconfig". Search for 192.168.x.y address and put it under "Destination IP adress".

What he said. I suck at CMD finding of things

Deathkight · Post by **Deathkight** » 06 Oct 2005, 05:57

Thanks Betalord understood.

Do i put that same ip address in the source IP aswell?

After i find that out i should have all the info i need thanks guys foir all the help its much appreated.

Deathkight · Post by **Deathkight** » 06 Oct 2005, 06:00

Wait forget that last post i figered it all out.

Thanks again guys

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 06 Oct 2005, 06:25

SwiftSpear, I was just going off what the site said. If Im misinformed then the site is. I have no prior knowledge of this stuff, I was just quoting what I had read.

Nice to know you have figured it out Deathkight

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 06 Oct 2005, 09:53

Maelstrom wrote:SwiftSpear, I was just going off what the site said. If Im misinformed then the site is. I have no prior knowledge of this stuff, I was just quoting what I had read.

Nice to know you have figured it out Deathkight

Portforward.com has tonnes of information relevent to routers, and MANY tutorials that have nothing to do with port forwarding in general, let alone port forwarding for that specific router. I didn't say that your information was misinformed, it just wasn't relevent to the topic at hand. Your external IP is assigned to you by your ISP, it can either be static, meaning it stays the same and never changes, or it can be dynamic, meaning at some point it will change... Some dynamic IPs take years and years to cycle, some cycle extreamly rapidly. The job of a router is to take several input signals from multiple devices and translate that information to one internet send to your ISP. your ISP receives the information from your external IP, and resends all information with your external IP as the point of origin flag, but like I said before, the router doesn't send information via external IP until the last step, and it manages all devices internally via its own adressing system.

Essentially someone asked a question about how to peel potatoes and you linked a tutorial about peeling bananas. The titles might include the same key word, but they are totally irrelevent to eachother. You don't need to know weather you have a dynamic or static IP to port forward, your router is responsable for brodcasting on the right IP, not the PC your trying to forward ports for.

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 06 Oct 2005, 11:19

Sorry bout carrying this on, but:

PortForward.com wrote:To setup port forwarding on this router your computer needs to have a static ip address. Take a look at our Static IP Address guide to setup a static ip address. When you are finished setting up a static ip address, please come back to this page and enter the ip address you setup in the Static IP Address box below.

And so following that link on the page everyone was originally directed to, I read about static IP's. Assuming that the information was relevant cause of what was on the page, I posted it thinking it would help.

Ah well, someone has made a simple mistake somewhere and got people confused. Now lets stop hijacking this thread shall we?

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 06 Oct 2005, 12:00

Maelstrom wrote:Sorry bout carrying this on, but:

PortForward.com wrote:To setup port forwarding on this router your computer needs to have a static ip address. Take a look at our Static IP Address guide to setup a static ip address. When you are finished setting up a static ip address, please come back to this page and enter the ip address you setup in the Static IP Address box below.
And so following that link on the page everyone was originally directed to, I read about static IP's. Assuming that the information was relevant cause of what was on the page, I posted it thinking it would help.

Ah well, someone has made a simple mistake somewhere and got people confused. Now lets stop hijacking this thread shall we?

Ah, I see. The roughter needs a static IP. Ok, I understand how that happened then

. Some of them are kind of touchy like that. My roughter just reassigns everything automatically if IP changes from a dynamic switch.

FLOZi · Post by **FLOZi** » 06 Oct 2005, 21:54

It means a static LAN IP (rather than given out by the router randomnly everytime machines are booted), not external.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 07 Oct 2005, 00:59

FLOZi wrote:It means a static LAN IP (rather than given out by the router randomnly everytime machines are booted), not external.

that's what I get for not reading the artical.

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