I had an earlier question answered by RobWill where he surmised that port forwarding may not work yet RDP should. It seems he is correct. His Configuration #1 did work but now I have an digital surveillance application that needs a port 8890 ie to view a web cam. Trouble is, it doesn't forward correctly. I used configuration #1 except used the port needed by the EyesPro surveillance program. No go and wondered how Rob knew this may not work?
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Title: How do I setup port forwarding properly with Qwest DSL modem and Linksys router?
Not quite sure which connection has which IP from the description [I'm easily confused :) ] but using the following example:
Configuration #1 with double NATing (Quest in NAT mode)
Quest WAN = [something like] 66.66.123.123 (probably assigned with DHCP)
Quest LAN =192.168.0.1
Linksys WAN =192.168.0.2
Linksys LAN =192.168.1.1
Linksys DHCP config for LAN = 192.168.1.100-150
First workstation = 192.168.1.100
Here on the Quest you would forward WAN port 3389 to 192.168.0.2 port 3389
and on the Linksys forward WAN port 3389 to 192.168.1.100 port 3389
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Configuration #2 (Quest in Bridge mode)
Quest WAN = [something like] 66.66.123.123 (probably assigned with DHCP)
Quest LAN =192.168.0.1 (unimportant- not even sure what it assigns in Bridge mode)
Linksys WAN =[something like] 66.66.123.123 (same as Quest WAN probably assigned with DHCP)
Linksys LAN =192.168.1.1
Linksys DHCP config for LAN = 192.168.1.100-150
First workstation = 192.168.1.100
No forwarding on Quest
and on the Linksys forward WAN port 3389 to 192.168.1.100 port 3389
Couple of notes.
1) In config #1 The Linksys obtains an IP from the Quest dynamically. If this ever changes you will loose your port forwarding. You might want to assign the Linksys LAN statically.
2) A basic router is the subnets on either side of any router have to be different so regardless of how you configure the Linksys the LAN and WAN have to have different 3rd octets like 192.168.0.x and 192.168.1.x
3) Configuration #1 may not work for port forwarding, but should for Remote Desktop
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