Atwooooood
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Lately I have been having some problems with people connecting to some listen servers that I try to host. I tried an open port check tool, and these ports are coming back as closed although I have opened them in my router and all settings are correct.
I then got to thinking that not too long ago my ISP replaced my old modem (basic, single WAN port modem) with a large Arris TG862 modem which has a WAN port, along with 4 LAN ports. I found out this thing had an IP address for it, so I logged into it (couldn't do this with my old modem), and discovered this modem has all the settings that my Linksys WRT54GL router has (DHCP, Wireless capabilities, WAN/LAN setup, Firewall, etc..)
My question is, could this new modem be the cause of my problems? I noticed that it has DHCP enabled along with the firewall which are both also enabled on my Linksys router. Any insight on this would be great, as I've been trying to figure this out the past couple days and have come up dry.
Edit: After finding an online manual for this Arris residential gateway, it turns out that port forwarding is referred to as "Virtual server" for this device. I tried to forward the port I'm having issues with, but when I go to apply the settings, it says invalid IP address even though I am typing in the correct local IP address.
Edit 2: While tinkering around with this thing, it dawned on me that I should be setting the Arris gateway to bridge mode, but after setting it to bridge mode and restarting the gateway like it suggests I do, my internet connection goes out.RT54GLWRT54GL WRT54GL
I then got to thinking that not too long ago my ISP replaced my old modem (basic, single WAN port modem) with a large Arris TG862 modem which has a WAN port, along with 4 LAN ports. I found out this thing had an IP address for it, so I logged into it (couldn't do this with my old modem), and discovered this modem has all the settings that my Linksys WRT54GL router has (DHCP, Wireless capabilities, WAN/LAN setup, Firewall, etc..)
My question is, could this new modem be the cause of my problems? I noticed that it has DHCP enabled along with the firewall which are both also enabled on my Linksys router. Any insight on this would be great, as I've been trying to figure this out the past couple days and have come up dry.
Edit: After finding an online manual for this Arris residential gateway, it turns out that port forwarding is referred to as "Virtual server" for this device. I tried to forward the port I'm having issues with, but when I go to apply the settings, it says invalid IP address even though I am typing in the correct local IP address.
Edit 2: While tinkering around with this thing, it dawned on me that I should be setting the Arris gateway to bridge mode, but after setting it to bridge mode and restarting the gateway like it suggests I do, my internet connection goes out.RT54GLWRT54GL WRT54GL