Author Topic: Port Forwarding help (Read 1472 times)

hypofely · « **on:** September 18, 2019, 12:36:40 pm »

Trying to open a port for a web app. I literally tried every combination I think what's possible but no success.

hypofely · « **Reply #1 on:** September 18, 2019, 12:48:57 pm »

changing the source ports to Any made it work however I don't understand why? Can someone explain it what's the difference?

banym · « **Reply #2 on:** September 18, 2019, 05:25:38 pm »

The source port of an application is in the most cases a random high port number.
Very few protocols require fixed source ports. Even less have same source and destination port.

Some more details are explained and linked in this thread:
https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/40850/why-does-source-port-and-destination-port-differ-in-my-network-communications