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Colin Hemmings
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Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
Linksys router |
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Hi there,
I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me? I am using a
'Linksys BEFSR41' router with built in firewall to share my internet
connection. I am having trouble with a piece of peer-to-peer software I
am trying to use. I requires an 'Incoming TCP listening port' which is
defaulted to port 6881. When I try to test this port and any others I
get a 'NAT error'. I am assuming this is something caused by my router.
I was wondering if anybody new of how I could go about solving this
problem?
Kind Regards
Colin H |
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Ernie
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Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
Re: Linksys router |
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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:43:31 GMT, Colin Hemmings
<colin.hemmings1@ntlworld.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi there,
I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me? I am using a
'Linksys BEFSR41' router with built in firewall to share my internet
connection. I am having trouble with a piece of peer-to-peer software I
am trying to use. I requires an 'Incoming TCP listening port' which is
defaulted to port 6881. When I try to test this port and any others I
get a 'NAT error'. I am assuming this is something caused by my router.
I was wondering if anybody new of how I could go about solving this
problem?
Kind Regards
Colin H
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You will need to access your router's configuration
(default is http://198.168.1.1) from any your web browser,
and either forward TCP port 6881 or set up a port trigger
for that port and specify the address of the machine
running the peer-to-peer software. |
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Renegade
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Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
Re: Linksys router |
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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:50:40 +0000, Colin Hemmings wrote:
| Quote: | Thanks yeah, I have tried that. And it all seem to work great then after
5mins the connections drops. I reset the modem, which corrects it but then
5mins later the connection drops again. It seems like its something with
the router as the modem lights are flashing fine. Unless I am specifying
the wrong IP. Which it the best way to find the IP for my PC?
Cheers
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If you are using the BEFSR41 as the DHCP server, access the
router's configuration and it will be listed under the DHCP clients tab.
Or you can run winipcfg from your pc and it will show that pc's ip address. |
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Colin Hemmings
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Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
Re: Linksys router |
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Thanks yeah, I have tried that. And it all seem to work great then after
5mins the connections drops. I reset the modem, which corrects it but
then 5mins later the connection drops again. It seems like its something
with the router as the modem lights are flashing fine. Unless I am
specifying the wrong IP. Which it the best way to find the IP for my PC?
Cheers
Ernie wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:43:31 GMT, Colin Hemmings
colin.hemmings1@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Hi there,
I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me? I am using a
'Linksys BEFSR41' router with built in firewall to share my internet
connection. I am having trouble with a piece of peer-to-peer software I
am trying to use. I requires an 'Incoming TCP listening port' which is
defaulted to port 6881. When I try to test this port and any others I
get a 'NAT error'. I am assuming this is something caused by my router.
I was wondering if anybody new of how I could go about solving this
problem?
Kind Regards
Colin H
You will need to access your router's configuration
(default is http://192.168.1.1) using your web browser.
You will have to either forward TCP port 6881, or set
up a port trigger for that port, and specify the address
of the machine running the peer-to-peer software.
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Ernie
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Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
Re: Linksys router |
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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:43:31 GMT, Colin Hemmings
<colin.hemmings1@ntlworld.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi there,
I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me? I am using a
'Linksys BEFSR41' router with built in firewall to share my internet
connection. I am having trouble with a piece of peer-to-peer software I
am trying to use. I requires an 'Incoming TCP listening port' which is
defaulted to port 6881. When I try to test this port and any others I
get a 'NAT error'. I am assuming this is something caused by my router.
I was wondering if anybody new of how I could go about solving this
problem?
Kind Regards
Colin H
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You will need to access your router's configuration
(default is http://192.168.1.1) using your web browser.
You will have to either forward TCP port 6881, or set
up a port trigger for that port, and specify the address
of the machine running the peer-to-peer software. |
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bettervoip
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
Posts: 3
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Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:51 pm Post subject:
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I've had a similar problem with linksys as I made too many changes in the router configuration. Then I reset to the default factory settings, forwarded the port I wanted , and it started working. Simple like that.
Jair
http://bettervoip.blogspot.com/ |
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Duane Arnold
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Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:13 am Post subject:
Re: Linksys router |
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Colin Hemmings <colin.hemmings1@ntlworld.com> wrote in news:4xFhf.4156
$w73.3324@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net:
| Quote: | Thanks yeah, I have tried that. And it all seem to work great then
after
5mins the connections drops. I reset the modem, which corrects it but
then 5mins later the connection drops again. It seems like its
something
with the router as the modem lights are flashing fine. Unless I am
specifying the wrong IP. Which it the best way to find the IP for my
PC?
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It sounds to me like you have a problem with the router. A long time ago,
I tried to help a person that was trying to do port forwarding on a
Linksys that had the same model that I had and it didn't work for him. He
returned and got another Linksys and it had not problems.
You could try to flash the router with the latest version of the firmware
and see if that will correct your problem.
Duane :) |
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Jbob
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Sat Nov 26, 2005 1:46 am Post subject:
Re: Linksys router |
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Sounds like you might be overloading this router with too many connections.
This router and many others like it are not designed to handle a lot of P2P
traffic. Too many simultaneous connections. One way around this is to tune
your P2P software to not allow so many connections.
Which v SR41 router is this? What firmware is loaded?
As an aside the BEFSR41 series do not actually have a built in Firewall.
Although the later versions might have attempted it again. If you have
settings called SPI or something similar then perhaps. |
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