Trouble with a router & incoming requests

[Rvd_Ziggy]

I've read through a whooole lot of posts on here regarding setting up fserves behind a router firewall, and read KrYp7on's useful guide to it, and I think I've got a pretty good idea what I'm doing now.

Thing is, it still won't do it for me. I wonder if somebody could look at this list of what I've done and see if I've missed something obvious...

1) LAN set to static IP on router and Win 2k.

2) Router set to map ports 59, 113 and 5000-5004 through to that static address by TCP and UDP.

3) Set Invision Local Info menu to WAN IP and WAN host.

4) In Connect->Options, set Default Port to 59 and Advanced->Bind all sockets to LAN IP???

5) DCC->Options->Ports to 5001 to 5004, and DCC->Server to Listen on Port 59.

The result is that when someone tries to /ctcp my fserve, my client does try to send, but it's not accepted by the requesting client, saying 'DCC Chat from [nick] rejected (invalid parameters)'

Any ideas?

Thanks if you can help.
Ziggy.

[JelloMan]

It sounds like you have everything setup correctly, the only thing I slightly question is the DCC port range - I usually like to give at least 50 ports, however that shouldn't be causing the problem you are having. Anyway you may want to check with your router company. I've setup a Fserve on the netgear RP114 and 614 models and it works out, however I've *heard* that some linksys routers will block DCC type connections - even with port forwarding.

I know this doesn't provide an answer however its the best I can do.

Good luck and sorry I couldn't help more,
JelloMan

[FTLNewsFeed]

Number 4 is all wrong, the default port is for connecting to an IRC Server itself so it should be somewhere between ports 6660-6669 and 7000-7002, the default for mIRC is 6667.

Let me walk you through my setup, I am a server behind a Netgear RT314 this is what I have:

Connect > Options > Advanced: nothing is checked
Connect > Local Info: Leave blank but have Local Host, Ip Address and Server ticked (by having server ticked your client will get your external WAN IP and give that to all connecting clients)
Firewall > Firewall Support: should be none
DCC > Options: DCC Ports is set to 1024 as First and 5000 as last
DCC > Server: Everything should be checked and this is where you set the port to listen on as 59

On the Router side I don't have its internal filters filtering any ports I need and I have TCP ports (UDP is not used by IRC) 59,113,1024-5000 set to forward to my LAN IP address.

I also have the LAN set to give me an IP addy out of its pool and Win2k DHCP's its IP from that pool.

If you want to clamp down on your port range have the 5000-5004 set to be forwarded to you (instead of my 1024-5000) but make sure that the ports in DCC > Options is set to 5000 as first and 5004 as last.

I pray this helps,
FTLNewsFeed

[john]

Using Netgear Wireless Router and I have pretty much the same settings that FtLNewsFeed stated above, cept i have the ports 5000-5010 forwarded. Recheck all ur settings, and make sure the other client is listenin on port 59 also, put this in ur Motd: /dccserver +sc-f on 59 so they know to type that before trying to access the fserve.

[Rvd_Ziggy]

Cheers for the replies, but no joy I'm afraid (router is from http://www.adsltech.com (ASR-8400). I'll be moving house in about 3 weeks anyway and changing from DSL to Cable, so I'll se how it goes with the new setup.

Ta-ra.