Earlier I had a working regular LAN Described below, but since the router has just two ethernet ports I installed a second router (hardware-configured and wired as bridge) to serve all our three PC's. Now I am trying to get the port forwarding to work..
The initial working setup:
WAN <-> Wannadoo Livebox <-> 3 PC's
Current setup, functional except for port forwarding:
WAN <-> Wannadoo Livebox <-> Buffalo Airstation (WHR-HP-G54) <-> 3PC's
(additionally: The Airstation has four LAN ports and one WAN port, in bridge config. the ethernet cable from the Livebox is connected to the 4rth LAN port and the PC's to the 1-3rd. It has a hardware switch to set it to either bridge mode or router mode, it's in bridge mode now)
I hope some of you awesome people can tell me how port forwarding works in this setup, I have tried the following:
- forward from the Livebox directly to the PC's IP, Airstation's routing turned off
- No forwarding on Livebox, Forwarding from Airstation to PC's IP
- Forwarded from Livebox to Airstation, forwarded from Airstation to PC's IP
- (probally dumb) forwarding to PC's IP from both the Livebox and Airstation
There is an awefull lot of information I can give about my network and hardware but most effective I guess if I wait until a helpful hand actually requires them. In The meantime, here's the link to the Airstation's product page:
Buffalo Airstation (WHR-HP-G54)Just to get my mind straight it could be handy to link IP's with device names instead of name them individually: currently my network is configured with the following IP's
Livebox: 192.168.1.1
Airstation: 192.168.1.100
PC1: 192.168.1.10
PC2: 192.168.1.11
PC3: etc..
Wireless laptop (Allthough probably not important to mention): DHCP assigned
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I can provide setup pages (you know, just file>save page as) from the router and bridge at request.
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Off topic allready:
(Yes, I am a bad person.. )
The firmware language of my Airstation is German and I can't find an English version it would accept, nor a built-in setting to change language. It's no big deal but slightly annoying. The firmware from the download page (see above link) wasn't accepted by the built-in update function, neither version 1.2 nor 1.40.
Any suggestions (or even solutions?
) are, of course, appreciated a lot.