Ot: Anyone Here Good With Dsl Routers?

[n15m0]

Thats shit as I said they are a pig of a modem, made for $4 by some 2 bit malaysian slave labour company methinks haha

Lemme know if you get stuck with your new gear.

Oi! There are plenty of Malaysians on here excuse me

[Chris Rogers]

So are you creating a VPN connection through successfully yet?

What errors do you get if VPN fails, does it just time out.

Is windows firewall enabled on the 2k server?

thats what I'm doing. think RDP on wireless and you have it.

the connection times out and stops- you can see the inbound data coming in.

firewall is off but zonealarm isnt. thats set to pass on one port only.

I'll know a LOT more in about 3 hours after I get the new router.

[Anquetil]

thats what I'm doing. think RDP on wireless and you have it.

the connection times out and stops- you can see the inbound data coming in.

firewall is off but zonealarm isnt. thats set to pass on one port only.

I'll know a LOT more in about 3 hours after I get the new router.

What VPN protocol are you using?... PPTP or IPSec?

Do all firewalls allow 3389, 1723 or 500/4500

Zonelalarm can be bloody troublesome, even if if you turn it off it still has a habit of blocking incoming.

Just to rule out Zonealarm being the cause, check the blocked zone log for the laptops IP.

[Mr-Toy33]

Do a favour and buy yourself a netgear or dlink router.

Best investment yet! got myself a dynalink router as well and have had nothin but trouble with it.

specially routing traffic to other servers/computers.

[Revhead]

I know Chris is using a different router now but just to clarify...

The problem definitely seemed to be the port forwarding on the router, I configured it to the best of my knowledge (lol) but it just didn't work. The rule I set up on the firewall allowed the RDP traffic into the router, but I could not get it to forward, regardless of what I tried. There are counters that show how many packets have been matched a given rule, so we could literally watch them get through the firewall but not get forwarded.

I won't pretend to be an expert when it comes to this kind of thing, but the menus and terminology on that router bear little resemblance to anything I'm familiar with. I had all the settings correct as far as I could tell and even had the RDP rule right up the top of the list and it just did not work.

I don't feel so bad now that it seems everyone else hates these routers too

So what router did you end up getting Chris?

[Mr-Toy33]

I know Chris is using a different router now but just to clarify...

The problem definitely seemed to be the port forwarding on the router, I configured it to the best of my knowledge (lol) but it just didn't work. The rule I set up on the firewall allowed the RDP traffic into the router, but I could not get it to forward, regardless of what I tried. There are counters that show how many packets have been matched a given rule, so we could literally watch them get through the firewall but not get forwarded.

I won't pretend to be an expert when it comes to this kind of thing, but the menus and terminology on that router bear little resemblance to anything I'm familiar with. I had all the settings correct as far as I could tell and even had the RDP rule right up the top of the list and it just did not work.

Having the rule up the top wouldnt really make much of a difference in some cases.

Having a rule at the top could sometimes override any other rule underneath it or depending on how stupid the router can be at times, the bottom rule can override the top rule cause it was the last one to be actioned.

I don't feel so bad now that it seems everyone else hates these routers too

So what router did you end up getting Chris?

PLEASE TELL ME U GOT A CISCO ROUTER!

CISCO FTW :D :D

[Chris Rogers]

nope netcomm NB5. (ta ben!!) got all the IDs for my connection now and I'm going to do a test run of it tonight.

[Chris Rogers]

No. 5 IS ALIVE!!!!!!! !!!!

now to set it to something oddball to get rid of the f'wits...

(suggestions -pm pls.)

I'm smiling ear to ear ATM because this thing simply works as I wanted it to!!

thanks for the help guys!!

Edited February 28, 2007 by Chris Rogers

[Lazy-Bastard]

netcomm NB5.

eeeewwwwww

that is all

[Chris Rogers]

it works so I'm happy. printing is another issue though.. (doing this now.)

[pear]

it works so I'm happy. printing is another issue though.. (doing this now.)

Mate, check out this site

http://www.tricerat.com/screwdrivers.php

I'm not sure on the cost. but it works very well.

good luck!

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[Spook's_Skyline]

zonealarm

ditch that dog

zonealarm is horrible

netcomm nb5s are also

[mrgilly]

Chris,

I need help with my car stereo sometime - I work on this stuff every day, so if you need help with Internet Printing etc PM me, we may be able to kill 2 birds with 1 stone!

Let me know

[Chris Rogers]

ditch that dog

zonealarm is horrible

netcomm nb5s are also

disabled it on both machines so I have NO issue geting what I need off the server. Qbooks runs just as fast remotely via 3g as it does on the server so I'm happy there. I can print to other machines just not the one I need to (in the van.)

I cannot see the printer (with the 3g link up.) on the server for some reason. I can see EVERYTHING else on the remote machine (pdf printer etc) but NOT the actual printer.

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gilly,

you're on.

[Revhead]

Having the rule up the top wouldnt really make much of a difference in some cases.

Having a rule at the top could sometimes override any other rule underneath it or depending on how stupid the router can be at times, the bottom rule can override the top rule cause it was the last one to be actioned.

Lol yeah the router has an arrangement where it numbers each rule, like the old days of line numbering in BASIC code (10, 20 etc). I tried the rule at the top and bottom, checked for anything in between with a "don't check past here" tag or something, nothing worked. The limited info I could find stated that rules were processed top to bottom and the first rule to match the packet was processed. So I put it first and it was still being ignored... I've never had that much trouble setting up port forwarding before!

Either way, it sounds like the NB5 has done the job... regardless of whether they are a good or a bad thing, they are definitely easier to work with (and have a much more usable port forwarding setup) than the original one

[Chris Rogers]

yep it works - its almost as fast (response time) as having the remote pc on a physical lan. I'm happy - still need to sort this printer out...

[AlexR34]

yep it works - its almost as fast (response time) as having the remote pc on a physical lan. I'm happy - still need to sort this printer out...

with the printer, have u actually installed it, like start ->printers and add printer etc etc, you would just need to share the printer from there, technically should all work.

[`nigno]

Make sure the printer is installed and shared, from there on your remote machine if its not coming up as auto detected, find out the name of the printer from your local machine.

Go into the Printers section of your remote machine and add a network printer, then select "ADD THIS PRINTER" and enter the name in. It will scan for that particular printer name through your network and hopefully pick it up.

The sharing and automatic detection often goes bannanas.

[Chris Rogers]

with the printer, have u actually installed it, like start ->printers and add printer etc etc, you would just need to share the printer from there, technically should all work.

it works and exists on the remote machine. I cannot see it onthe server - manual entry I thought of but considering it was near dark when I was working on this I ran out of light. will work on it morn this arvo.

[Chris Rogers]

mr gilly is a LEGEND!!-

all sorted and I can now print in my van again!

thanks!!