Re: [Bigsister-general] Perhaps someone has an idea

[Tino Schwarze <suppressed>]

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 02:27:46PM +0100, suppressed wrote:

> perhaps someone has an idea on that: We changed our FireWall to a
> Fortigate and i enabled Port Forwarding to an internal IP. Port 1984
> (TCP) is the only port that is forwarded (take a look at the
> screenshot). The problem is that BigSister seems to get no information
> from the clients via Internet from any client -> all lamps are in status
> purple (-> no report). If i change the source port to 1-65535 (TCP)
> everything works well. So the conclusion is that some other port has
> been involved via the communication process than 1984 TCP. I won?t
> forwared all ports to the internal box cause of security issues.

Go to an external server and try
  telnet <external IP> 1984
You should get a message like

Trying <external IP>...
Connected to <external IP or hostname>.
Escape character is '^]'.

If this doesn't work (e.g. output stops after "Trying ...") then it's a
firewall issue.

HTH,

Tino.

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