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Re: weird WRT54G stopped forwarding port 80 and 443

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On Thursday 02 June 2011 06:21 in comp.os.linux.networking, somebody
identifying as Philip wrote...

> [...]
> I solved the problem. 
> 
> To make a long story short, I reset the router to factory defaults
> several times, but everytime as I enabled wireless and brought up the
> wireless cameras, the port forwarding would go bonkers and route
> directly to the new camera.
> 
> Again to make the story short, I eventually determined that the new
> camera had UPnP capability and UpNP forwarding on by default. The
> WRT54G also has UPnP enabled on by default. The WRT54 also seems to
> have the wierd feature of totally ignoring its forwarding table as
> soon as the first UPnP device with forwarding shows up.
> 
> This totally explains why my router seemed to go nuts as soon as the
> new camera was hooked up. Definitely an undocumented feature in the
> WRT54G. I guess they decide you either used all UPnP based automatic
> forwarding configuration or the router's forwarding table; no mash up
> up the two.
> 
> Turing off the UPnP on the new camera restored sanity to my network.
> Now all is well and I can access my web server again.
> 
> Thanks to all with the hints. It helped me pinpoint the issue.

Thank you for reporting back with the results of the diagnosis. ;-) 
Google archives Usenet [*], and as such the problem and the solution
are saved for posterity. ;-)


[*] Sadly enough, it also allows people to post to Usenet by way of
    Google, but that's another issue. ;-)

-- 
*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

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weird WRT54G stopped forwarding port 80 and 443 Philip <none@nospam.net> - 2011-05-30 17:21 -0700
  Re: weird WRT54G stopped forwarding port 80 and 443 "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2011-05-30 20:44 -0400
    Re: weird WRT54G stopped forwarding port 80 and 443 Philip <none@nospam.net> - 2011-05-30 22:10 -0700
  Re: weird WRT54G stopped forwarding port 80 and 443 Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> - 2011-05-31 07:47 +0200
    Re: weird WRT54G stopped forwarding port 80 and 443 Philip <none@nospam.net> - 2011-05-31 08:43 -0700
      Re: weird WRT54G stopped forwarding port 80 and 443 Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> - 2011-06-01 00:33 +0200
        Re: weird WRT54G stopped forwarding port 80 and 443 Philip <none@nospam.net> - 2011-06-01 21:21 -0700
          Re: weird WRT54G stopped forwarding port 80 and 443 Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> - 2011-06-02 07:17 +0200

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