topic Re: port fowarding in My Router

port fowarding

rod-router — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 17:25:45 GMT

Can someone help?

See my attachment, both portchecker and yougetsignal both say the port is closed, why?

In the 'show ip address' column I have selected my internal device which needs to accept connections

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Re: port fowarding

Champnet — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 18:12:28 GMT

Is there any device in your network listening for activity on thoses ports ?

Re: port fowarding

Dan_the_Van — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 18:35:10 GMT

@rod-router

There is nothing wrong with the port forward rule you have setup

On the Hub Two looking in >Technical Log >Event Log do you see for the time you tested the connection using portchecker or yougetsignal these entries? (The 192.168.10.220 will be your listening device)

19:04:39, 02 Sep. FWL Port Forward Server(192.168.10.220) TCP 5006 accepted a new connection from 85.255.232.96

19:04:38, 02 Sep. FWL Port Forward Server(192.168.10.220) TCP 5006 accepted a new connection from 85.255.232.96

These are examples of a port forward rule accepting a connection.

You can not test a UDP port connection with those sites

You need the device the port forward rule points to application listening (running) for inbound connections for a tester to confirm connection, is this the case?

EDIT: new connection from will be the IP Address of the tester

Re: port fowarding

rod-router — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:51:56 GMT

Yes, I have a NAS device listening for port 5006 which I have given it a specific ip address within the ip range for the router

Yes. In the log there is an entry which says "FWL Port Forward Server(my device ip address) TCP 5006 accepted a new connection from 45.33.50.110

But portchecker still reports 5006 is closed? and I still cannot connect to my NAS outside of the internal network

Re: port fowarding

Dan_the_Van — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:04:56 GMT

Are you able to connect locally? I'm expecting you can.

Is the NAS default gateway IP Address correct, should be the Hub Two.

Some NAS drives have a firewall which needs setting up for outside connections to be allowed

Re: port fowarding

Champnet — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:12:48 GMT

@rod-router Is this a Synology box ?

Being nosey can/will you say what's opening port 9308.

Re: port fowarding

Dan_the_Van — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:16:43 GMT

@Champnet

that port is UPnP created rule

Re: port fowarding

Champnet — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:20:52 GMT

@Dan_the_Van If it's P&P then an application has opened it.

Re: port fowarding

Dan_the_Van — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:35:12 GMT

Yes I knew about UPnP but not P&P

Late now, I'm not about tomorrow so I'll leave this to you

Re: port fowarding

rod-router — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:42:06 GMT

Port in question is 5006 (the 9308 port has no issues)
Yes, it is synology. I can enter locally and open login via quickconnect too however I need to be able to drag and drop files
Yes, default gateway is set HUB2 address

Not had any issues with my previous ISP

Re: port fowarding

Champnet — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 21:00:05 GMT

@rod-router I've a couple of those boxes I'll have a play tomorrow................

Re: port fowarding

rod-router — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 07:58:35 GMT

Port is now open.
I have a VPN service installed on the synology for further protection and I needed to select a check box named 'accept multiple gateways'
Although I still cannot access my NAS from outside the network, for now back to synology help pages

Thank you all for your help and suggestions which did spur me on

Re: port fowarding

Champnet — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:55:47 GMT

@rod-router Thanks for the update, let us know how you get on...........

Re: port fowarding

rod-router — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:33:03 GMT

I managed to get the port forward open however my synology webdav client is not responding for some unknown reason even though everythng is online and seen by their network.

I am now using a workaround a program called Tailscale, its free for persoanl use, uses Google authentification without the need for port forwarding and can access my files anywhere.

Re: port fowarding

Champnet — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:47:53 GMT

@rod-router Tailscale, good reccomendation.......