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Resolved Port forwarding on a Netgear DGND3700

Discussion in 'Networking (Hardware & Software)' started by Dingus, 2012/06/21.

  1. 2012/06/21
    Dingus

    Dingus Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    As the heading says. I'm looking for info on my router. A Netgear DGND3700.

    I bought myself a Vodafone suresignal and I need to forward some things.

    See http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Vodafone-Sure-Signal/New-Sure-Signal-Steady-Power-Light-Only/td-p/679063 (See the list near the bottom of the page)

    I can forward ports ok, but the Vodafone says to forward ip addressess (See link) which has me stuck.

    Anyone know this router well enough?
     
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  2. 2012/06/21
    Steve R Jones

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    Your link does't work;)
     
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    Dingus

    Dingus Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Thanks Steve. Don't know why. I've redone it. Seems ok now.
     
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    Dingus

    Dingus Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Thanks for posting Tony.
    I can setup port forwarding ok when I'm forwarding just ports, but in the link to Vodafone you'll see that they say I need to forward IP addresses also. Netgear's manual doesn't show how to do this. If indeed it can be done.
     
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    TonyT

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    When using port forwarding you always need an ip address to forward the port to, e.g. the computer that will receive the network traffic over those ports.

    If you only have one computer on your network then you must use your computer's IP address in port forwarding.

    When using port forwarding, the computer that receives the traffic should have a static IP address, one that never changes. The default network settings in Windows operating systems is for the computer to "obtain an address automatically ", a dynamic address that will change from time to time.

    Set your computer with a static IP address.

    If your gateway (router) LAN address is 192.168.1.1, then make your computer IP address 192.168.1.10, anything other than the router address.

    Set the subnet to 255.255.255.0 and set the gateway and dns addresses to that of the router: 192.168.1.1.
     
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    Dingus

    Dingus Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Again thanks Tony.
    I'm fine with port forwarding. It's the instructions on Vodafones web site (Link) that says you need to forward any communication from their IPs to my SureSignal device (SS).
    They need ports 50,4500,123,500 and 8 forwarded to the SS. That's easy and I've done that. I've also enabled PPTP on port 1723. Enabling PPTP fixed a similar problem I had on a Linksys router I had.

    They also say that info from their OWN IPs should ALSO be forwarded to the SS. The list of these IPs are on their site (Link).
    This is what I've never done on any router before and can't see how it can be done on this Netgear DGND3700 I've just bought.

    From their web site:

    Destination IP Addresses:
    212.183.133.177
    212.183.133.178
    212.183.133.179
    212.183.133.181
    212.183.133.182
    212.183.131.128/26
     
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    TonyT

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    UPnP should automatically take care of the WAN IPs forwarded to the LAN.
     
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  10. 2012/06/22
    Dingus

    Dingus Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    mmmmmmmmm

    Should......... but doesn't.
    Hence all this hastle. Vodafone really should get their act together.
     
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  11. 2012/06/23
    MrBill

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    Have you contacted them by phone to see if they can help? How about Netgear?
     
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  12. 2012/06/23
    Dingus

    Dingus Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    MrBill. When you speak to Voda you get a kid who is following a flow chart that finally gets to, "go to our help web site for solutions........... "
    Netgear can help you with port forwarding but not with IP forwarding.

    Thanks tho
     
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  13. 2012/06/23
    MrBill

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    They mostly all do with the flow chart. lol Some are a little more savy than others. Been there and done that. Sometimes the word Supervisor will help. :D
     
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    TonyT

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    I suggest you read all the posts at the vodophone forums re your router. There's several threads there where users got that router working with the ss.
     
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    Dingus

    Dingus Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Yes Tony. I've read them ALL. It's as long as War & Peice.
    By the amount of post you'd think Vodafone would realise their SureSignal has a problem and get it fixed so customers wouldn't have these issues.

    However there's no info on the Netgear router that works. :mad::mad:
     
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  16. 2012/06/26
    TonyT

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    It seems that some have got the two to work together by resetting both, and then setting up from scratch, being sure to assign the SS a static LAN IP.
     
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  17. 2012/06/28
    Dingus

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    Yes Tony. The Suresignal is a strange beast. It seems that you can't just turn it on when all fails. Instead you need to reset it to factory defaults and get it to reload from Vodafone.
    However, I done this a number of times. Still tying though.
     
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  18. 2012/06/29
    Dingus

    Dingus Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Guys thanks for all of your posts.

    It seems the problem was NOT with port forwarding after all. It was with Vodafone's system.
     
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