Port forwarding is the act of using redirecting one port to another, commonly used to access a computer from behind a firewall with NAT.
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What is port forwarding and what is it used for?
There are a lot of questions on 'port forwarding' but there doesn't seem to be one that clearly states what it is and what it's used for. So:
What is Port Forwarding?
What is it used for, and why ...
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Remote connection to a PC over internet
I have a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium with Norton Internet Security 2009. I like to help my father and sister by connecting their PCs over the internet and taking full control. My father has ...
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Allowing access to localhost outside network
I have a Netbeans project running on localhost with Tomcat and MySQL, all is well.
I now want to show my progress to someone in another part of the country.
How do I let him access my website ...
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Connecting to my own network via external IP
Even though I have seen and read quite a few similar Q's I was still unable to understand what is required for me to be able to do this.
I have an internal network. One of the machines is a web ...
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DD-WRT: How to allow port forwarding to apply to requests originating from inside the LAN?
With the original firmware of my router I had port forwarding defined from port 80 to the server in the LAN, which I used in conjunction with an external dynamic DNS service.
I've now upgraded to ...
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Port forwarding my router
I am trying run a web server on my static IP address but when I open my IP address its opening my DSL router how can I assign that IP to my computer
any ideas?
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Port Forwarding and Internet Sharing Problem
This is not a firewall issue.
I have an ADSL connection, and have set port 50420 to be forwarded locally for use with utorrent. Everything was working fine, and various tests and utorrent itself ...
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Port Forwarding not working in DSL Router
I am using BSNL BroadBand connection and a DSL Router is provided that can act as a Default Gateway to many wireless devices. One such device is my server. I have bought a static ip on lease. So that ...
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port forwarding for facebook to reach me?
I am developing a facebook app in my htdocs folder in python. i am behind an ADSL Modem, then a Wireless Router.
I have a static IP. Now how do i get Facebook to reach me? In the connect and callback ...
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Stable reverse port forwarding in SSH and stale sessions
Using VPS to forward ports behind NAT:
for((;;)) { ssh -R 2222:127.0.0.1:22 vi@vi-server.org; sleep 10; }
When connection is broken somehow and it is reconnecting.
Warning: remote port forwarding ...
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How to ssh to my dorm computer with shared public IP and no admin rights over the router?
First of all, I am not a Linux or ssh newbie. I have searched for this problem on many forums extensively but nobody seemed to have discussed this. Please help me!
I live in a student dorm ...
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Forward Ports on Parallels
I have a dev server on port 8080 on my mac, and I'm trying to access it from a clean installation of Windows 7 in parallels.
Ipconfig says my VM's IP address is 10.211.55.3. I can access the mac ...
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Iptables port mapping from two PCs to one
We have 3 PCs, two of it are connected to internet (both of it have 2 NIC)
PC1:
eth0 - 1.0.0.1 (external IP)
eth1 - 172.16.0.1 (internal IP)
PC2:
eth0 - 1.0.0.2 (external IP)
eth1 - 172.16.0.2 ...
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Port forwarding software (service) for Windows
I have a server service that uses 8182 port. Somebody want to connect to this, but 8182 port is unavailable for him, ony 5118 working fine.
No problem I thought, I just install port forwarder ...
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Allowing a friend to connect over the internet to a Minecraft server I've hosted?
I have set up a Minecraft server and have built lots of things, now I want my friend to play on it too.
I'm hosting it on my home computer and don't want to have to set up a new server elsewhere so ...
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How can I get my routers to forward ports correctly?
My network currently looks like this (simplified):
Note that Router #2 is connected to the LAN interface of Router #1. This should be familiar to anyone who has seen a standard static-IP setup ...
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Windows Firewall: How to allow traffic on a specific port (eg. 8080)?
I am trying to configure team Foundation Server so that
1) it is accessible from within my Home Network
2) and then make the Web site access accessible via the Internet
I have a problem with point ...
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How to tunnel a local port onto a remote server
I have a domain that i bought from DynDNS. I pointed the domain at my ip adress so i can run servers. The problem I have is that I don't live near the server computer... Can I use an ssh tunnel? As I ...
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Port Forwarding UDP ports not working
For making a Call Of Duty Server using cod-rcon tool, I have port forwarded the following ports: 28960, 28961, 20500 and 20510 (all ports in UDP). If I use this website to check if the ports are open ...
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Why doesn't port forwarding work correctly for me?
First off, my router is a D-Link DIR-655, firmware v2.07. I'm trying to port forward port 25565.
My port forward settings are this:
However, when I use this open port checker, it claims that I ...
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How to port-forward IPv6 in m0n0wall?
How do i port-forward IPv6 packets in m0n0wall?
For example i want to forward traffic arriving on port 443 of my router to another IPv6 address:
Interface: WAN
Protocol: TCP
External port range: ...
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The physical aspect of networking ports
I stumbled across this article which, unlike any ambiguous article I've read, states that my
"pencil-thin network cable (or wireless network adapter) at the back of your computer contains 65,536 ...
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VM on ESXi host - How does one make externally accessible?
I have a home server running ESXi v5.0.0 with a VM guest OS (linux) up and running.
I have apache 2.x installed and serving to my machine (i.e I can access the default apache page when going to ...
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Forwarding port 80 of Windows 7 to virtual Ubuntu Server
I'm running a virtual instance of Ubuntu Server using VirtualBox in Windows. To access the site hosted in it, I want to forward port 80 to Ubuntu, so that I can simply go to localhost to mess around ...
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How can I get VMWare to use the same IP as the host?
I am running RHEL 6 on my Win-XP using VMware.
On VMware it has the local IP. I want it to be same as that of XP.
i.e. 123.237.115.199 on both. (This is dynamic IP but I want that the dynamic IP on ...
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VirtualBox NAT Port forwaring fails on port 80
Solved! Hooray!
This problem has been solved by the author...
In general, port forwarding works for me.
Currently I want to add a port, 80 to 8080, host to client, but i just cannot use ...
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Problems exposing a web site from behind a router
I have a D-Link DSL-2650U ADSL router for my home network.
I also have my own domain server registered at dyndns.org, and I have successfully configured my router to keep [mydomain].dyndns.org ...
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How to setting up iptables for traffic fowarding on port 80 from specific sources
Im running a web server on port80, but i want traffic coming from ip 212.333.111.222 on port 80 to be fowarded to port 9020 on the same server that my web server is rinning at that is my sshd port
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How to forward a public (network-accessible) port to a local (port or host)
I'm using Ubutnu 9.04, and XAMPP as a testing server for my websites.
What I want to do is make my websites network-accessible. For now only the my-ip-address:80 is accessible and managed by XAMPP.
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DD-WRT, virtual hostname forwarding to other names/IP's using round robin
I'm using DD-WRT v24/K2.6 on Netgear WNDR3400. On my home network I have many machines running (I do lots of distributed programming). I want to create a virtual hostname, say publisher, such that any ...
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how to host a website using a dlink router port forwarding throuh IIS8 [duplicate]
Im trying to host the default iis8 website for testing which has the setting as shown in the figure below.
I can open it like this
as opposed to this I want to open it using my static internet ...
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How to troubleshoot port forwarding on Windows 7 (64 Bit) with ICS enabled?
I want to forward some ports (1666 for perforce, 8081 for Hudson) on my Internet Gateway machine. This machine is running Windows 7 (64 Bit, legal, user-account) and connected to the Internet via ...
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Why can't I connect to my VNC server from outside my network?
I have a computer running TightVNC server. It is on my home network. The computer it is installed on has a locally static ip address 192.168.1.100. I am able to connect to this vnc server from my ...
