hey, im not new to port forwarding, but this is a unique scenario to me.
my housemate needs his bittorrent client, Azureus to work though 3 firewalls, (2 router and 1 winxp firewall). when i first ran Azureus, the windows firewall jumped up and told me it was blocking the program, but i told it not to in this prompt, so that should be out of the way.
the router situation in my house goes like this: dsl modem -> wired linksys router -> wireless linksys router, with some switches in between. both routers have a firewall. my own PC simply connects thru the first router by wire, so port forwarding setup was very easy for me.
however, my housemate's connection goes through 2 routers before getting to his laptop (hes connecting wirelessly to the 2nd router). the network has to be set up this way physically, due to the house and location of the phone jack. both routers have DHCP enabled. wireless connections acquire their ip through the wireless router. the routers are set up to use different ips, both for themselves, and for DHCP ip assignment, so theres no conflict there.
when setting up his bit torrent, i configured Azureus to use port 50000 (this number is approved by the program's literature), and configured the wireless router to forward all traffic thru that port to his laptop. Azureus claims that hes still firewalled, and i think its the first router thats blocking him. since he gets the ip from the second router (his ip is 192.168.1.xxx as opposed to 192.168.100.xxx, which is the ip range that the first router uses), is there a way to tell the first router to allow incoming connections on that port???? would i perhaps set up an additional port forwarding entry in the first router's setup, telling it to forward all traffic from port 50000 to the second router's address??? even if i wanted to, i cant because the ip of the second router cant be inputted in the port forwarding field unless i change the ip of the second router to something like 192.168.100.x to line up with the ip range of the first router....would this work?
any other suggestions? thanks for helping!
my housemate needs his bittorrent client, Azureus to work though 3 firewalls, (2 router and 1 winxp firewall). when i first ran Azureus, the windows firewall jumped up and told me it was blocking the program, but i told it not to in this prompt, so that should be out of the way.
the router situation in my house goes like this: dsl modem -> wired linksys router -> wireless linksys router, with some switches in between. both routers have a firewall. my own PC simply connects thru the first router by wire, so port forwarding setup was very easy for me.
however, my housemate's connection goes through 2 routers before getting to his laptop (hes connecting wirelessly to the 2nd router). the network has to be set up this way physically, due to the house and location of the phone jack. both routers have DHCP enabled. wireless connections acquire their ip through the wireless router. the routers are set up to use different ips, both for themselves, and for DHCP ip assignment, so theres no conflict there.
when setting up his bit torrent, i configured Azureus to use port 50000 (this number is approved by the program's literature), and configured the wireless router to forward all traffic thru that port to his laptop. Azureus claims that hes still firewalled, and i think its the first router thats blocking him. since he gets the ip from the second router (his ip is 192.168.1.xxx as opposed to 192.168.100.xxx, which is the ip range that the first router uses), is there a way to tell the first router to allow incoming connections on that port???? would i perhaps set up an additional port forwarding entry in the first router's setup, telling it to forward all traffic from port 50000 to the second router's address??? even if i wanted to, i cant because the ip of the second router cant be inputted in the port forwarding field unless i change the ip of the second router to something like 192.168.100.x to line up with the ip range of the first router....would this work?
any other suggestions? thanks for helping!
