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Tutorials and FAQs / Re: [Tutorial] How I do port forwarding - simple and straightforward
« on: August 11, 2024, 07:32:00 pm »
Hello, I have figured out the issue as to why my port forwarding was not working. It was nothing to do with what I was doing or setting up in OpenSense. I live in an area called the Quad Cities, Which is Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline, IL. We have a all fiber Internet provider called MetroNet. I have had their service for about 3 months and was not doing much with my camera system and web server so I never knew that port forward was not working. (even with my TP-Link gaming router)
So a generalized F.Y.I. to all who are / may be having the same issues as I was. Make a call to your ISP provider to double check to see if it is anything on their end. So in my case with MetroNet, how / what they use to give me my I.P. (WAN) address will not allow any port forwarding of any kind. I even was using NoIP's DDYNS service which I pay for. I was noticing that what I.P. my WAN was getting was not what was being reported as what my WAN address was as seen by the Outside Internet. In order to fix and resolve the situation, I needed to request a static I.P. from my ISP, and for an extra $10 a month it's worth it.
So after my ISP issued and converted my account over to a Static I.P. address, everything works. When I go to Ping.EU website and run their utilities for check to see if port 80 and 443 are open, it now reports as open, which each time I tried the other day would report as closed. I watched many videos, and forum posts on how to do port forward, and my settings were exactly as stated in the videos / forum posts but no luck. I even for a time wiped out my Opensense firewall system and just for the heck of it as a control test installed PFSense and got the same results. I know PFsense is a very , very bad word in this forum, But I am re-installing Opensense now on it. I must say I do like OpenSense and its GUI much better than Open Sense.
Just glad to know I was not going nuts and doing something wrong, this forum has very good instructions, so again, if you have configured everything correctly for port forward and noting is working, place a call to your internet service provider technical support and see if there is something on their end causing the blockage. I was using Mediacom for my previous ISP service and with my NoIP DDYNS service my portforwarding was working fine.
So it was not like I was using a store bought Linksys, or other brand home router / gaming roughter and just switched to using Opensense, I switched providers all together. So if you are using the same ISP provider, and what ever you were using before Opensense, is working fine with port forwarding, and you switch in the Opensense and it does not work, in that case I would assume a configuration might not be set correct.
So a generalized F.Y.I. to all who are / may be having the same issues as I was. Make a call to your ISP provider to double check to see if it is anything on their end. So in my case with MetroNet, how / what they use to give me my I.P. (WAN) address will not allow any port forwarding of any kind. I even was using NoIP's DDYNS service which I pay for. I was noticing that what I.P. my WAN was getting was not what was being reported as what my WAN address was as seen by the Outside Internet. In order to fix and resolve the situation, I needed to request a static I.P. from my ISP, and for an extra $10 a month it's worth it.
So after my ISP issued and converted my account over to a Static I.P. address, everything works. When I go to Ping.EU website and run their utilities for check to see if port 80 and 443 are open, it now reports as open, which each time I tried the other day would report as closed. I watched many videos, and forum posts on how to do port forward, and my settings were exactly as stated in the videos / forum posts but no luck. I even for a time wiped out my Opensense firewall system and just for the heck of it as a control test installed PFSense and got the same results. I know PFsense is a very , very bad word in this forum, But I am re-installing Opensense now on it. I must say I do like OpenSense and its GUI much better than Open Sense.
Just glad to know I was not going nuts and doing something wrong, this forum has very good instructions, so again, if you have configured everything correctly for port forward and noting is working, place a call to your internet service provider technical support and see if there is something on their end causing the blockage. I was using Mediacom for my previous ISP service and with my NoIP DDYNS service my portforwarding was working fine.
So it was not like I was using a store bought Linksys, or other brand home router / gaming roughter and just switched to using Opensense, I switched providers all together. So if you are using the same ISP provider, and what ever you were using before Opensense, is working fine with port forwarding, and you switch in the Opensense and it does not work, in that case I would assume a configuration might not be set correct.