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I'm lost in port forwarding. (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi there!

I'm trying to forward ports on my local network.

I'm using fiber connection and my ISP is not blocking any ports - confirmed on phone call.

Router I'm using is Tenda AC23.

Here's screenshot of my settings, top is what I'v placed in tenda settings, lower one is port in Qbittorent I want to forward. I'v checked my local ip via 'ipconfig' command.

What I'm doing wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? I wrote up some information on another sub for how port forwards work.

"Port Forwards allow traffic inbound on a particular port, using the public IP that is actively being used by the router, to the internal device's private IP. They are used to allow an external device to connect in to your internal device.

When you configure a port forward you need to know the outside port (this is the port the external device will be connecting in on, when connecting to the router's public IP), the private IP of the internal device, AND the internal port the device will allow traffic to "talk to it" on.

Let's work with an example. Let's say your router has the WAN IP 68.67.66.65, and your internal device has the private IP 192.168.1.50. If you want an external device to connect in on a particular port (lets say 7000) to that device you add a Port Forward, specify the external port as 7000, the private IP 192.168.1.50, and the internal port 7000. Now, keep in mind that the external port does not have to match the internal port, however, you want to make sure the private device will allow traffic in on whatever internal port you enter.

If I'm an external device trying to connect to your internal device, I would connect in on 68.67.66.65 on port 7000, and I should be passed through to your private device."