Opening ports on a Vodafone router

Oonagh123 · 22-12-2022 12:37PM #1

Hi,

I'm trying to open various ports on my Vodafone router ( Vodafone Gigabox), I've followed the instructions from Vodafone and the port isn't opened when I check via portchecker.co.

I've enabled expert mode -> Internet -> Port mapping -> added the port details. Do I need to disable another other settings? I've rebooted the router etc and I'm still facing the same issue.

TIA

Oonagh

Glaceon · 22-12-2022 05:49PM

Have you also enabled access through your PC's firewall, such as Windows Firewall?

Oonagh123 · 24-12-2022 11:11AM

Yes, I’ve opened the opens on my machine and when I check using port checker.co the port is still “closed”

pakb1ue · 24-12-2022 11:33AM

For what it's worth I've set up port forwarding on my Vodafone router to connect to my OpenWrt router for WireGuard. I also tried that website but it showed that the port was closed.

But on my OpenWrt I only allow traffic on that port with a certain IP address.

Not related to your question but for WireGuard it's a good idea to registry the Mac address with an internal IP as on reboot of your router you could give the OpenWrt router a new internal IP. You'll find this in Settings -> Lan Settings.

machiavellianme · 03-04-2023 09:54PM

Did you ever get to the bottom of this Oonagh? I'm having the same problem with the Gigabox router. No matter what I do, the ports show as closed externally.

Opening ports on a Vodafone router

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