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Vodafone Home BB and NAT for DVR

  • 25-04-2011 09:15PM
    #1
    Toyota1968
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭


    Having a problem with vodafone home BB and setting nat rules (port forwarding ) for a dvr - no matter what I do I cannot get port forward .com to recognise that port 5000 and 8080 are opened. Is it possible that vodafone have "hardwired" their netowrk so that I cant open these ports?

    Using the standard provided hg556 router with all up to date firmware - have followed with vodafone but their response has been "we dont support port forwarding as it is a security risk"

    thanks for help in advance

    just also noticed on my routers diagnostics that the "ping " tests are failing - could this be connected?


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  • #2
    Shane O' Malley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭Shane O' Malley


    I am not an expert at that modem but check with the firewall off.

    I know with the Eircom modem, you could set up port forwarding but it would not work until you turned down the firewall.


  • #3
    Toyota1968
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭Toyota1968


    Thansk for your reply -

    I am actually opening the port up to view a dvr which doesnt have a firewall - so this shouldnt be a problem from what I know -

    Is there a firewall on the router that can be "tuned" ?


  • #4
    Shane O' Malley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭Shane O' Malley


    Not sure where the firewall settings are on that model but would be very surprised if there is not some sort of one.

    I see from other posts on this modem that there seems to be lots of problems

    I did find this post which indicates there is a firewall but may not be the case with your model. http://tails92.sepwich.com/files/vstation/news.html


  • #5
    connafly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭connafly


    Toyota1968 wrote: »
    Having a problem with vodafone home BB and setting nat rules (port forwarding ) for a dvr - no matter what I do I cannot get port forward .com to recognise that port 5000 and 8080 are opened. Is it possible that vodafone have "hardwired" their netowrk so that I cant open these ports?

    Using the standard provided hg556 router with all up to date firmware - have followed with vodafone but their response has been "we dont support port forwarding as it is a security risk"

    thanks for help in advance

    just also noticed on my routers diagnostics that the "ping " tests are failing - could this be connected?

    Appears you have a faulty router, load sware for dvr to local machine try this first to access dvr,can you ping internal, turn off firewall (briefly) does dvr have dns support ? you could try it.


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