Port forwarding is a royal pain

falcon409

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about 8 months ago, I added a router (a necessary evil as I see it) to be able to run Vonage and a second computer off the cable. I took my time and set up every port from 80 to 10000, lol. I downloaded the utility "portopentest.exe" and ran it to confirm my settings and got an "ok" on every single port I set up.

NOW, for some unknown reason, none of those ports are forwarded any more, despite the fact that the original configuration is just as I originally set it up. I still have the same Motorola Modem, Linksys Router and Linksys Cable Modem I've always used. I checked the default Gateway address to ensure that was still correct, I verified that the DMZ was enabled and so on and so forth.

As far as I can see nothing has changed. Does the replacing of the Motherboard and processor enter into this in any way? In Lieu of that, does anyone have a suggestion that requires me to look at anything that I haven't mentioned here?
 
Out of curiosity, what did you have to do in order to correct the problem?
I had a similar problem months ago and ended up resetting up my network because of it. Sorry I didn't respond sooner...

James
 
I have a second computer as well as a Vonage Modem that go through my linksys router and when I setup the port forwarding for my router a very long time ago everything seemed to work fine. Well, my configuration has changed somewhat and I never rechecked the setup to ensure that the computer IP was still valid. It wasn't.

Best thing to do is go to the startup for Vista and in the block at the bottom where it says "Start Search" type in cmd, that will give you a DOS screen, then type ipconfig and see what your computers IP address is, then go into the router setup for gaming and make sure that the IP address you selected for forwarding your ports to is the same. When I originally set it up it was 192.168.1.50. . . .now it's 192.168.1.102. . . .big difference.

A major "thanks" to Tim Bullock (aka; Satellite) over at WSP for finally getting me back on track.
 
I am glad that it was a simple fix. Interesting how simple it can be if one has the tricks for diagnosing what is wrong.
 
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