12-11-2008 05:44 PM - edited 03-06-2019 02:56 AM
the final issue I am having with my router is I can't do a loop. I try to go to my external IP address to check if ports and such are open, but it doesn't do anything. Yet when I try it externally, it works fine. How can I get my computers inside the network to go my outside IP and loop back to test the open ports. In other words, I type in my domain name inside the cisco router, it just times out. I type it outside (another internet connection) and it works fine. Any Ideas? Attached is my config.
12-12-2008 11:24 AM
Hello Dale,
if you tested if from another internet connection and everything is dine is enough.
IP routing work on a destination basis and per hop (router hop ) basis: you cannot make the packets start from inside go outside and the come back inside.
Hope to help
Giuseppe
12-12-2008 03:09 PM
Then how does the linksys router do it? For example: my outside IP on my WAN is 172.0.0.1 and my internal addressing scheme is 192.168.84.0. My server is on 192.168.84.3. If I open up port 80 on the router and it works from the outside, then why can't I type 172.0.0.1 from a client with the ip address 192.168.84.50 and get to the web server? This means, if I have a site, and try to go to it with mysite.com it won't go to it internally, but will work externally.
12-12-2008 03:10 PM
That means, for the people that work at google, they can't access google.com?
12-13-2008 11:58 AM
Clearly No, they can.
Best Regards
Giuseppe
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