Router Setup.....Damn Things

richardyork · - Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 411 Location: United Kingdom

if you could help me it would be much apprecited,
ive just brought a router, an Origo ASR-8100. i have set it up ok and my two pc's can access the internet, thats what i wanted it for. now i cant access my website because now all that i get is the damn router configuration when i go to my website! i really dont understand port forwarding and stuff like that and the configuration dosn't even give me the option to. please explain in lamens terms untill i do some research on routers...lol.
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Anonymoose · - Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 2192

I have the ASR-8400 myself. Good choice :D

The problem you have is that the router doesn't support loopback - this is when you try to access your website via the external IP from either of the PCs which are now on your LAN. There is no way of fixing this on the actual router - however, you can edit your Windows hosts file so that when you type your website name it uses the LAN IP of your server instead - this way it will still appear to be working for you with the name, rather than you having to type your IP or computername instead.

For other PCs on the internet to access your PC, you will need to set up a Virtual Server on your router - this is another name for port forwarding. All port forwarding does is tell the router that any traffic arriving on a particular port should be sent on to a machine inside the LAN rather than just dropped, which the router will do by default. The manual has a pretty good section on how to set this up.

There are also a few interesting security 'quirks' to your router you probably want to close...

richardyork · - Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 411 Location: United Kingdom

ive just looked at the virtual server configuration and i havn't got a clue what any of it means! im too frightened to mess with any settings. could you give me the settings for abyss web server please?

p.s. i have adsl and the ip changes every reboot etc, so how do you go about sorting that out? soz if that is a silly question im not up on all of this stuff...lol

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TRUSTAbyss · - Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 3752 Location: USA, GA

Hi richardyork , add me to your MSN , I will be more than happy to help you
with your router issue , my msn address is msn@trustabyss.com , LateR!

For those who want an update , I will post it here.

Anonymoose · - Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 2192

TRUSTpunk, while you're sorting it out, I'd suggest helping him set up virtual servers to forward ports 21, 253, 254 and 255 to *non existant* IP addresses on the LAN. The Origo routers are insecure by default.

There are also settings for disabling HTTP administration from the WAN side of the router which should be used...

richardyork · - Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 411 Location: United Kingdom

thanks for the help, ill be online tonight, im at college at the moment :-(
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TRUSTAbyss · - Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 3752 Location: USA, GA

Anonymoose · - Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 2192

I wasn't suggesting you'd have a problem with the setup - just letting you know that out of the box, these routers have a rather large and nasty security hole. They have an unprotected admin interface on port 254 - which isn't even mentioned in the manual for the router :O Redirecting this port via a virtual server effectively disables it. More details here :

http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/6Y00N0U8KG.html