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Configuration of Routers, Firewalls, etc / Re: Linksys WRT1900AC no opening remoterig ports on the internet

« on: 2014-11-21, 23:10:35 »

Issue has been root caused and resolved.

I was careless about updating the Gateway sever IP address and it still had the 192.168.2.1 entry from the previous router.  Moving it to 192.168.1.1 resolved the issue!!

Tree N6TR

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Configuration of Routers, Firewalls, etc / Re: Linksys WRT1900AC no opening remoterig ports on the internet

« on: 2014-11-17, 19:55:32 »

Thanks Mitch.  Understand all you are saying.  While I don't need to port forward to work for the LAN - it is interesting to me that the port forwarding that I setup does work on the LAN.  The issue is that somehow the Linksys is deciding not to open those ports externally to the internet - where it has no problem doing it for other ports that go to other devices. 

It seems that there must be some kind of handshake that is being done where Linksys decides not to activate the port. 

Yes - I have SIP unchecked.

Tree

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Configuration of Routers, Firewalls, etc / Re: Linksys WRT1900AC no opening remoterig ports on the internet

« on: 2014-11-17, 17:25:15 »

Thanks Mike and Mitch. 

Yes - the port forwards are a bit hidden under "games".  And yes - they are pretty easy to setup. 

However, they are not playing at all with either one of two remote rig boxes.  And yes - THIS IS STRANGE.  I have had three phone calls and some email contact with tech support from Linksys (it was Monday morning in The Philippines).  They are very curious about what is going on. 

Simple problem statement - port forwarding is working on the LAN (internal) but not out to the internet.  However, other devices - like web cam - AC switch box and network attached storage do.  The question is - how does the Linksys know to treat the remote rig devices differently? 

This might make a good novel.  The fact that you have this working Mitch is very interesting.  Can you perhaps send me a screen shot of your port forwarding config page?  tree at kkn dot net.  Thanks.

Tree N6TR

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Configuration of Routers, Firewalls, etc / Linksys WRT1900AC no opening remoterig ports on the internet

« on: 2014-11-16, 21:28:01 »

(Sorry - I had posted this in the wrong place earlier)

Decided to buy a new router and spend $240 at BestBuy for a "good one".

I have found that for some reason - the router is not wanting to put the ports for the remoterig boxes out on the internet (WAN).  The port forwarding stuff all works fine within the LAN.

I can take a port number that talks to other port 80 web pages (camera - AC switch box - network attached storage) - change it to the local IP address of either of my remote rig boxes - and the external port is no longer open (verified by my laptop using my cell phone to get to the interent - or also by using ping.eu which is a nice tool).  This is also happening for the other ports used for radio control (Audio - command - SIP).  Somehow the Linksys is deciding the IP address should not be made available on the internet?

This all worked fine with my old Belkin router that I was replacing.  I decided to replace the router because I was getting choppy audio using any of the better audio quality settings and though that maybe how SIP was being handled had something to do with it.  That probably still exists BTW - even when making sure the SIP stuff is disabled in the router. 

After at two hour chat with Linksys which only resulted in my issue getting escalated to someone who could really understand it - I now seem to have Linksys engaged on trying to root cause this.  I'll update this as I make progress. 

I guess for now - this is a heads up that the WRT1900AC might not play well with remoterig boxes - and perhaps someone else has seen this and figured it out?

Tree N6TR
Boring, OR

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Configuration, RRC 1258 / Linksys WRT1900AC Router issues

« on: 2014-11-16, 20:16:27 »

Decided to buy a new router and spend $240 at BestBuy for a "good one".

I have found that for some reason - the router is not wanting to put the ports for the remoterig boxes out on the internet (WAN).  The port forwarding stuff all works fine within the LAN. 

I can take a port number that talks to other port 80 web pages (camera - AC switch box - network attached storage) - change it to the local IP address of either of my remote rig boxes - and the external port is no longer open (verified by my laptop using my cell phone to get to the interent - or also by using ping.eu which is a nice tool).  This is also happening for the other ports used for radio control (Audio - command - SIP).  Somehow the Linksys is deciding the IP address should not be made available on the internet?

This all worked fine with my old Belkin router that I was replacing.  I decided to replace the router because I was getting choppy audio using any of the better audio quality settings and though that maybe how SIP was being handled had something to do with it.  That probably still exists BTW - even when making sure the SIP stuff is disabled in the router. 

After at two hour chat with Linksys which only resulted in my issue getting escalated to someone who could really understand it - I now seem to have Linksys engaged on trying to root cause this.  I'll update this as I make progress. 

I guess for now - this is a heads up that the WRT1900AC might not play well with remoterig boxes - and perhaps someone else has seen this and figured it out?

Tree N6TR
Boring, OR

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Configuration, RRC 1258 / Re: Unable to talk to RRC using Microbit utility

« on: 2014-11-16, 20:09:31 »

I think the page I was looking at was for some other purpose.  I played around enough to get the manual page to come up (using SecureCRT to talk to COM6).  I never did get the microbit program to talk to the box.  :-(

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Configuration, RRC 1258 / Unable to talk to RRC using Microbit utility

« on: 2014-11-13, 06:49:11 »

Have an older styles remote rig box with serial port.  Trying to talk to it using a USB to serial port adapter - and Microbit Setup Manager (version 1.27).

I can see COM6 in my Device Manager and can even talk to it using a terminal emulator program (connecting pins 2 to 3 and looping back).  However, I can never get COM6 to show up as an option in the Microbit program.  I only see COM2, COM3 and COM4.  If I change the port from COM6 to COM2 - then I see COM3, COM4 and COM5 in the Microbit program. 

Any help appreciated.

Tree N6TR