Port Forwarding Not Operational - Stumped

[dman535]

I did an upgrade to 3.7 from 3.4 - same setting - but now I am not getting any port forwarding. Everything else seems to be fine. Attached is a report - with the recent log and network information.

Seems like Freesco is ignoring the port forwarding commands and rejecting the traffic going through those ports.

thanks for any help.

Derek.-

[Lightning]

----- cat /etc/portfw.cfg | sed s/\#.*//g -----
t,80,80,192.168.54.40
t,3389,3389,192.168.54.40
t,6681,6681,192.168.54.50
u,6681,6681,192.168.54.50
t,32459,32459,192.168.54.50

Should be
----- cat /etc/portfw.cfg | sed s/\#.*//g -----
tcp,80,80,192.168.54.40
tcp,3389,3389,192.168.54.40
tcp,6681,6681,192.168.54.50
udp,6681,6681,192.168.54.50
tcp,32459,32459,192.168.54.50

You also should know that you can NOT use

ENAWWW=s  #441 HTTP Server
WWWPORT=80  #442 port

When trying to forward a port that you also have a server running on it MUST be set to "y" mode and not "s" mode.

[dman535]

Thanks for the oversight.

The web server is on a different box. So I assume I keep it secure for internal network use (ie control panel) and then forward port 80 to the server.

Is that right ?

thanks

Derek.-

[dingetje]

Configuring the FREESCO web server in control panel to 's' (secure) will add a firewall rule that will stop all access from the outside to port 80. I assume that is NOT what you want?

So either disable the builtin FREESCO web server completely ('n') or enable it for world wide access ('y'). In both cases the port forward to the internal web server on the other box will work.

[Lightning]

As a side note, when you have port forwarding enabled on FREESCO it takes ALL external connections on that port and forwards them to the server you have specified in the forward. So if you run a server on FREESCO on the same exact port then that server is NOT accessible from the outside. But it does work on the local LAN side of FREESCO. So in essence with port forwarding enabled it is the same as running the server in "s" mode except it has to be set in "y" mode or the forward will not work because of the firewall rule set when running in "s" mode.