FTP dosent work on MN-500 from an externa N/W

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Dear Belur,

What firewall are you using on the FTP server? ZoneAlarm
or WinXP ICS? If it is set to consider your MN-500 LAN
a "trusted" zone, then different rules apply when
accessing from the Internet, by default.

If you indeed have the FTP server in the DMZ, ALL your
ports are open without a firewall. "Port forwarding" is
meaningless in this situation as there is no "forwarding"
involved.

To access the serve external to the MN-500 LAN, you must
use the IP assigned by the ISP's DHCP. You must also
access through a PC which allows FTP traffic (i.e.,
unrestricted by its own firewall or router/firewall/proxy
from FTP traffic).

When you eventually get your FTP server working, get it
off the DMZ and into the NAT firewall of the MN-500;
assign it a static IP; use "permanent port forwarding"
for port 21. In fact, I might suggest diabling your
software firewalls and putting the FTP server behind the
MN-500 NAT NOW and trying it with port forwarding.

Good Luck

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
> I have a MN-500 product, I am trying to set up a FTP
>server and i have placed my machine in the DMZ zone, I
am
>able to FTP on the internal Address. If i need to access
>the box from an external network what setting do i need
>to do on the base station, I did make changes to the
port
>forwarding to accomdate port 21. But still i am not able
>to get to my box from the external N/W.
>
> I have cable connection and the IP is DHCP but seems to
>be the same IP for most of the time.
>
> Any articles for setting up would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks for the help
>Belur
>.
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.broadbandnet.hardware (More info?)

Which version of the firmware are you running?

Belur wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a MN-500 product, I am trying to set up a FTP
> server and i have placed my machine in the DMZ zone, I am
> able to FTP on the internal Address. If i need to access
> the box from an external network what setting do i need
> to do on the base station, I did make changes to the port
> forwarding to accomdate port 21. But still i am not able
> to get to my box from the external N/W.
>
> I have cable connection and the IP is DHCP but seems to
> be the same IP for most of the time.
>
> Any articles for setting up would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks for the help
> Belur