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Originally Posted by echwel
I don't understand why neither the touch nor the glo should need forwarding rules in a home-wifi-router. They are not accessed from outside your network, they are accessing the outside internet themselve!?
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Well, all I can say is that my router logs showed that, upon initiating a sync, _outbound_ packets from the IP address assigned the Glo were being dropped for lack of an explicit rule (or "service enabled", as they say in Westell 327 language).
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Port-forwarding is used when accessing a device from outside a NAT-network.
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Yes, all my WiFi toys draw their IP addresses form a pool of NATted addresses: 192.168.1.something-thru-something. (I'm not home now).
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Maybe you set the internal firewall of your router to strict, stopping ALL internet traffic to some (or all) IP-adresses, unless they specifically are opened up again.
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I haven't shut everything down, but close.
If it means I miss the occasional dancing kitty, so be it.
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In that case, it seems logical that a device on one IP-adress has more or less difficulty accessing the internet than an other device on an other IP-adress. Re-configurate the firewall in that case. To my opinion that has nothing to do with port-forwarding, more with port-closing...
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Well, two points here: One is that syncing my Glo just up and worked about 24 hours ago. No idea why. I wonder if a mystery device somewhere had woken up and managed to claim the same address?
As for the way Westell allows users to do things, I have three choices:
1) allow Westell to run a maximum security setup
2) allow Westell to run a minimum security setup
3) Run "intermediate": the Westell allows only a small set of default permissions that should get an average user going (http, DNS, etc.), and everything else is either user-selected from a predefined list of "services" (email ports, AOL ports, popular game ports), or the user has to "roll their own" service. All this fun gets called "Port Forwarding" by westell, so I have adopted their language, which may be somewhat imprecise.