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Sagemcom router port forwarding rules add failure

vtan5
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Message 9 of 9

Hi guys, I've just setup my sagemcom router and trying to add port forwarding rules.

 

However, I keep getting "Operation could not complete, something wrong happened.". I'm not too sure what's wrong with the setup, can you please advice?

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My rules are as follows:

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What have I done wrongly? Do I need to specify the external host?

 

Thanks

 

 

 

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Hi @KeithFrench the hard reset took me awhile, no idea why the button keeps "moving" but manage to see the flashing orange light so all good.

 

I tried again on the port forwarding before changing the 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.8.1, and it works.

 

Then i delete that and tried again on the 192.168.8.*, it seems to work fine this time. Really weird why factory reset works.

 

Thanks for the help, port forwarding all working again!

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KeithFrench
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Message 3 of 9

Hi @vtan5 

 

There were problems with using different IP addresses on the router in older firmware. What version are you running? If it is 2816 or 130 you should be fine.

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KeithFrench
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Message 4 of 9

That looks fine, try the factory default of the configuration.

Keith
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Message 5 of 9

Hello @KeithFrench  thanks for coming back to me, I've changed the followings:

 

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And i've also set the range as follows:

 

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This was done before this post.

 

Am i missing anything?

 

 

 

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KeithFrench
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Message 6 of 9

No, I am not saying that at all. It is just that it wouldn't work if the router was still set to 192.168.1.1.

 

I have just tried TCP port 687 on my Sagemcom & it forwarded fine without errors and actually worked.

 

I would suggest that you reset the router to the factory default configuration.

 

When you changed the router's IP address, did you:-

 

  1. Change the DNS address handed out by DHCP

  2. Change the router’s IP address & DHCP IPv4 Pool Start & End ranges to match.

Keith
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Hi @KeithFrench yeah, i changed the router to have IP of 192.168.8.1, the range will be 192.168.8.10 - 192.168.8.254 (all else equals, just the 3rd position being 8 instead of 1.

 

So you're saying it won't work if I were to change it to 192.168.8.1 ?

 

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KeithFrench
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Message 8 of 9

Is your router's IP address changed from the default of 192.168.1.1, as your rule points to an IP address of 192.168.8.20?

 

Leave the external host address as *, which is a wildcard to say that any IP address on the internet has the ability to try & connect to your router.

Keith
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