im trying to do port forwarding, but it doesnt work on dsl 1000ER modem router on my singnet broadband connection. I'm running a apache webserver on 5555 and had it port forwarded to. But i can access through the external ip address. I asked my friend to access my IP and port 5555, but they can't view the page. I'm sure all my pc/webserver all worked as i've tried it with my linksys router before. It worked. But after switching to singnet and using aztech router, i can't. Singnet has claimed they did not block any ports for my IP. Now that port forwarding can't work, i am sure if i open up the ports for gaming as well, it will not work as well. Can anyone assist me with this. could it be the router's fault or firmware problem? please see screen shot and detailed problem at http://flyclassic.blogspot.com/ any helpers ?

You did bind the static ip to the apache server? You did set the listening port to 5555 in apache? You are trying to access via the web at wanipaddress:5555?

yes i did if you see my screenshot in my blog

Sorry your screen shots/blog didn't tell me any more than your original post. Still lacking the details which is why I asked three very specific questions. BTW your dhcp scope is wrong unless you are doing ip reservations. Since the server is set at 192.168.1.2 the scope should be from .3 to 253.

hi thanks. my screenshot did show i am accessing thru wanip:5555 and my apache works on 192.168.1.2:5555 which means my apache port listening to 5555 hmm , not quite sure what you mean wrong. 192.168.1.2 is assigned to my pc that has the webserver running, so what is my scope wrong ? if i set .3 to .253, my pc ip address will changed to .3

what I see strange is it's asking for two addresses?? Why would the router need you to specify the forwarding address twice? I've never seen a port forwarding config that requires you to type in the same address in two boxes...I can't find any guides for that router though. Maybe one of them is suppose to be the external (public facing) address?? You will normally need to set that up if the router has multiple interfaces. Try your external IP (The 116... address) in 'Remote host' - also try swapping them around if it doesn't work. Just a guess. Also - I would verify that the server is not seeing any traffic on port 5555 - if it is, then the server is probably misconfigured. You can check it with something like: sudo tcpdump -i en0 -s0 -A 'port 5555' (en0 or en1 for OS/X - get it from ifconfig, you'll also need a password on your account to use sudo) If you see any traffic in tcpdump, then the problem might not be w/ the router.

flyclassic any time you do port fowarding you forward to a STATIC ip never a dynamic ip. You need to give the web server a static ip. Hence my advice about the dhcp scope. DHCP means your server could get any ip address in that scope. This could also be the reason your port forwarding isn't working. "192.168.1.2:5555 which means my apache port listening to 5555" What happens if you just put in 192.168.1.2?