Forwarding Port 80 on the Linksys RTP300

Posts: 6 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 06, 2006 Posts: 6

OK... I really feel silly asking this question, but I have been banging my head against the wall for a week.

All I am trying to do is forward incoming requests on port 80 to my webserver behind a Linksys RTP300. The webserver has a static IP of 192.168.15.250. I go into the Applications & Gaming ---> Port Range Forwarding and enter the following:

Application-------Start-----End------Procotol--------IP Addy------Enable
------Web----------------80-------80-------Both----192.168.15.250--------X----

This works on a WRT54GS and a BEFSR41 both Linksys Routers I have used in the past. The next thing I was going to try is to update the Firmware, but I come to find out I gotta contact Vonage to get it? The RTP300 is reporting a version of 1.00.60. Does anyone know if this is the latest code? or know where you can go to find out this information.

Thanks in Advanced,
-Vik

Posts: 2257 · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject:

1.00.60 is the latest.

If you're going to be putting the kind of load on it to run any but the most casual servers, I'd get a WRT54GL (the last of the Linux-based routers in the WRT54G line) and put it in front of the RTP300, and turn the RTP300 into a Vonage device only.

Posts: 6 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 06, 2006 Posts: 6

Well I did not want to make this post to complex, but I do have a WRT54GS in front of the RTP300. The RTP300 is in my basement and so is my web server. So I figured I might as well try to use one of the 4 LAN ports.

I have taken the WRT out of the mix, and the forwarding still does not function properly. I do have the port forwarding set up on the WRT54 pointing to what the RTP300 thinks its WAN IP addy is. Since I do not have any of the firewall/NAT/ect.... enabled on the RTP300 I get to the RTP admin login page.

I guess I just need to know if anyone else has port forwarding working on their RTP300.

-Vik

Posts: 1715 · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:30 pm Post subject:

Do you have your firewall disabled on the web serving computer?

Posts: 6 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 06, 2006 Posts: 6

Yes TPA - Firewall is not active.

I can type in the static IP and get the webpage served locally. It really should not be this difficult. Should it? LOL

Thanks for the responses guys,

-Vik

Posts: 2257 · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:58 am Post subject:

Vikrant wrote:

Well I did not want to make this post to complex, but I do have a WRT54GS in front of the RTP300. The RTP300 is in my basement and so is my web server. So I figured I might as well try to use one of the 4 LAN ports.

I have taken the WRT out of the mix, and the forwarding still does not function properly. I do have the port forwarding set up on the WRT54 pointing to what the RTP300 thinks its WAN IP addy is. Since I do not have any of the firewall/NAT/ect.... enabled on the RTP300 I get to the RTP admin login page.

I guess I just need to know if anyone else has port forwarding working on their RTP300.

-Vik

Try putting the web server in the DMZ of the RTP300.

You can also try option #3 of the following, which will give you one LAN, but you'll lose the configuration screens on the RTP300 (intermittently):

http://vonage.nmhoy.net/tworouters.html

Posts: 6 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 06, 2006 Posts: 6

Yeah I had it set up that way. That is how I found these forum's. I posted on that tread. I did not like how you had to loop back the LAN into the WAN connection. I set a static Route back to the secondary subnet from the primary. Now I am trying to forward the port 80 traffic to the secondary LAN when I ran into the problem of the RTP300 not forwarding port 80. I think I am just going to put a dummy hub in between the two to get the web server on the primary LAN where the port forwarding works. I just did not want to have to do that.

-Vik