Unable to ping router.

[itxweather]

Hi,

For some reason or another i'm not able to ping my router outside of my LAN and have tried using Babel Fish http://babelfish.altavista.com/ without any success.

I'm almost certain that it was possible to ping my DSL-G604T router via the internet however a flash upgrade has seemingly left my DSL-G604T inoperable. (any advice on how to double check whether or not the flash upgrade has rendered this inoperable would be appreciated).

The router that i'm using is a Medion/Aldi router and i've left the "This device should not respond to ping" option unchecked.

I've configured port 1024 for port forwarding through ip address 192.168.1.20 which is the ip address of my ip camera.

Obviously if it's not possible to ping my router i'll not be able to get my ip camera to work via the internet only LAN side. I'm running out of ideas now and would really appreciate some suggestions to help get me up and running.

Thank you.
Best Regards.

 

[urbandragon]

your internet provider may block ping requests.....

 

[DelJo63]

does your browser & email still work?

assuming a windows OS,
use ipconfig /all to get the DNS address
and ping it

if you can ping your ISP site but not your router AND your browser is
function, then your router is blocking pings.

if you can not access the ISP at all, try the hardware reset and reconfigure
the browser per day-1 instructions.

get your ISP access working and then tweek for the camera access later

 

[tdeg]

My router doesn't respond to WAN ping requests either and that is just fine with me. No one needs to be able to ping it.

If you camera uses port 1024 and you have forwarded that port to your camera on your router, you should be good to go.

If you want to see if your ISP blocks port 1024, go to http://www.grc.com/default.htm and do the Shields Up. See if the 1024 port is open. If it isn't then your forwarding isn't working or your ISP blocks it.

 

[DelJo63]

if you can ping your ISP site but not your router AND your browser is
function, then your router is blocking pings.

there are two addresses for the router; the WAN (ie: external) and the LAN(ie: internal)

from one of your system, ping 192.168.0.1 should always work while
pinging your WAN address should be configured to NOT respond

 

[Turboz]

itxweather,

Did you ever get port forwarding to work on your medion from the internet?

I've tried port forwarding using firmware 1.0.2 on my medion and port forwarding is dead. Even grc.com's shields up showed the 'forwards' as being closed.

Very strange firewall the medion has - When you don't have a port open for forwarding, grc.com shows the port as stealth. When you OPEN it in the firewall grc.com shows it as closed - IE the router responds and acknowledges that the port is there but that it is closed for communications.

Did you get it working? - If so how!?

Thanks

-T