BiPAC 8800AXL Port Forwarding

[wecpcs]

Hi, I have just purchased the 8800AXL router and I am having severe difficulties in setting up port forwarding to my Windows Home Server v1.0 as the terminology is totally different to other routers I have had in the past.

I need to forward ports 80, 443 and 4125 to my server on 192.168.1.100, so how do I do it please on this unit, as UPnP does not work (as on many devices I have had in the past, so I have nearly always had to configure it manually). I know that the Rules for HTTP(80) and HTTPS(443) are already there and I normally just create a custom rule for 4125 (RD_PROXY) and assign all 3 to my server.

I have tried both the incoming and outgoing IP Filtering settings as well as the Virtual servers all to no success, so can someone please help me. If I cannot do it, I will have to send it back and go back to my Home Hub 5 which I did very easily, but it was a c**p piece of hardware.

Colin

[billion_fan]

Hi, I have just purchased the 8800AXL router and I am having severe difficulties in setting up port forwarding to my Windows Home Server v1.0 as the terminology is totally different to other routers I have had in the past.

I need to forward ports 80, 443 and 4125 to my server on 192.168.1.100, so how do I do it please on this unit, as UPnP does not work (as on many devices I have had in the past, so I have nearly always had to configure it manually). I know that the Rules for HTTP(80) and HTTPS(443) are already there and I normally just create a custom rule for 4125 (RD_PROXY) and assign all 3 to my server.

I have tried both the incoming and outgoing IP Filtering settings as well as the Virtual servers all to no success, so can someone please help me. If I cannot do it, I will have to send it back and go back to my Home Hub 5 which I did very easily, but it was a c**p piece of hardware.

Colin

Are you using a ADSL connection or fibre connection (FTTC)

[wecpcs]

Hi, I have just purchased the 8800AXL router and I am having severe difficulties in setting up port forwarding to my Windows Home Server v1.0 as the terminology is totally different to other routers I have had in the past.

I need to forward ports 80, 443 and 4125 to my server on 192.168.1.100, so how do I do it please on this unit, as UPnP does not work (as on many devices I have had in the past, so I have nearly always had to configure it manually). I know that the Rules for HTTP(80) and HTTPS(443) are already there and I normally just create a custom rule for 4125 (RD_PROXY) and assign all 3 to my server.

I have tried both the incoming and outgoing IP Filtering settings as well as the Virtual servers all to no success, so can someone please help me. If I cannot do it, I will have to send it back and go back to my Home Hub 5 which I did very easily, but it was a c**p piece of hardware.

Colin

Are you using a ADSL connection or fibre connection (FTTC)

I am using the FTTC connection. Prior to buying this I was using the BT Home Hub 5 on BT Infinity 2 which I configured manually for port forwarding with ease, but after an automatic firmware update on the hub recently, it totally screwed up all my speeds along with many other users and then I tried adding the Openreach Modem which configured perfectly with UPnP (one of the few), but was no better speed wise. So far this router has got back some of my speeds, just leaving this problem of port forwarding.

Colin

EDIT
Just got it sorted. I noticed that with the virtual server settings I had added it defaulted to PPoA and not PPoE. Only problem now is how to reserve the IP on my server as I do not want it changing.

[billion_fan]

Hi, I have just purchased the 8800AXL router and I am having severe difficulties in setting up port forwarding to my Windows Home Server v1.0 as the terminology is totally different to other routers I have had in the past.

I need to forward ports 80, 443 and 4125 to my server on 192.168.1.100, so how do I do it please on this unit, as UPnP does not work (as on many devices I have had in the past, so I have nearly always had to configure it manually). I know that the Rules for HTTP(80) and HTTPS(443) are already there and I normally just create a custom rule for 4125 (RD_PROXY) and assign all 3 to my server.

I have tried both the incoming and outgoing IP Filtering settings as well as the Virtual servers all to no success, so can someone please help me. If I cannot do it, I will have to send it back and go back to my Home Hub 5 which I did very easily, but it was a c**p piece of hardware.

Colin

Are you using a ADSL connection or fibre connection (FTTC)

I am using the FTTC connection. Prior to buying this I was using the BT Home Hub 5 on BT Infinity 2 which I configured manually for port forwarding with ease, but after an automatic firmware update on the hub recently, it totally screwed up all my speeds along with many other users and then I tried adding the Openreach Modem which configured perfectly with UPnP (one of the few), but was no better speed wise. So far this router has got back some of my speeds, just leaving this problem of port forwarding.

Colin

EDIT
Just got it sorted. I noticed that with the virtual server settings I had added it defaulted to PPoA and not PPoE. Only problem now is how to reserve the IP on my server as I do not want it changing.

Great news, regarding setting up a fixed IP address for your server, use the 'Static IP Lease List' found under LAN, click on the 'Add' button then enter a 'Host Label' then the MAC Address of the device in question and IP address outside the default DHCP range that you want the router to assign to the server everytime (eg 192.168.1.200 as the default DHCP range is 192.168.1.100~192.168.1.199)

[wecpcs]

I am using the FTTC connection. Prior to buying this I was using the BT Home Hub 5 on BT Infinity 2 which I configured manually for port forwarding with ease, but after an automatic firmware update on the hub recently, it totally screwed up all my speeds along with many other users and then I tried adding the Openreach Modem which configured perfectly with UPnP (one of the few), but was no better speed wise. So far this router has got back some of my speeds, just leaving this problem of port forwarding.

Colin

EDIT
Just got it sorted. I noticed that with the virtual server settings I had added it defaulted to PPoA and not PPoE. Only problem now is how to reserve the IP on my server as I do not want it changing.[/quote]

Great news, regarding setting up a fixed IP address for your server, use the 'Static IP Lease List' found under LAN, click on the 'Add' button then enter a 'Host Label' then the MAC Address of the device in question and IP address outside the default DHCP range that you want the router to assign to the server everytime (eg 192.168.1.200 as the default DHCP range is 192.168.1.100~192.168.1.199)[/quote]

Thanks for that, but actually I had already decided that was the way to go, but was undecided at the time to go for one outside the range or in the upper range out the way but luckily I chose the right way as you have just stated and I chose 192.168.1.50.

Colin