Router Trouble

[Digitalosophy]

Heya all,

ok.. my friend just got a router, hooked up 2 pc's, bla bla bla.

now... no one from the outside can connect to him. firewall is and i opened a port in the router but no dice. i didnt have a problem on my home pc, but this a different router, and i'm not using IIS here. i think he's using Serv-u or something like that.

anywawy bottom line is eevrything was fine until the router came into play. all firewalls are turn off and port 23 is open for ftp usage.

anybody have any ideas?

[fez]

routers are by far the biggest pains in the *** known to mankind...if its a linksys call tech support, its free. other than that...psh

[Digitalosophy]

na i have a linksys, i never had a problem really with that, im not sure type this is

[mlk]

sometimes when you run xp it has its own firewall - you've got to turn it off to allow the router one to work (i think)

[Digitalosophy]

yea i tryed that too, thanks though

[Niann]

If the router uses NAT he needs to tell the router to direct port 21 (port 23 is generally used for telnet) traffic to the privite ip address of the pc that is running the FTP server. You can route different ports to different local ip addresses, so that you could have one box acting as an FTP server and another one acting as a HTTP server, and a third acting as a POP3 server. Of course you could just start all these services on one box and use that up to you. =)

Cheers!
-Niann

[Digitalosophy]

o, ok cool, ill give ti a go. thanks!