facethewolf
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- Dec 13, 2011
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Hello,
I'm so excited that I finally fixed this (though it may seem minor) I had to share this in case anyone else has the same problem.
This problem may not be SPECIFIC to Freenas, and really it's not even Freenas' problem.
I have a Netgear router connected to Comcast Cable. I setup Freenas and FTP service.
I setup the port forwarding on the NEtgear, and it worked for a while.
Someone recommended that I set the Freenas NIC for a static IP. A short while later, I found that I could not access the FTP service from outside the LAN. FTP over the LAN worked fine--but what's the point of that?
It took me a long while to figure out that it was the static IP address that was causing it. I had reserved that IP address on the Router, and forwarded port 21 and everything to that address, but the ports still were not getting forwarded.
I changed the Freenas Nic back to DHCP, and suddenly port forwarding worked.
My hypothesis, is that since the Netgear didn't hand out the address via DHCP, it failed to realize that the freenas was connected (even though the connected devices list showed it), and did not forward the port to a computer that was not "connected."
So my solution is to actually fake static-IP. Technically the Freenas Nic is set for dynamic IP address; however,The freenas mac address is remembered on the Netgear to always receive the same address via DHCP.
I just thought others might like to know my findings.
Thank you.
Sincerely, Sean
I'm so excited that I finally fixed this (though it may seem minor) I had to share this in case anyone else has the same problem.
This problem may not be SPECIFIC to Freenas, and really it's not even Freenas' problem.
I have a Netgear router connected to Comcast Cable. I setup Freenas and FTP service.
I setup the port forwarding on the NEtgear, and it worked for a while.
Someone recommended that I set the Freenas NIC for a static IP. A short while later, I found that I could not access the FTP service from outside the LAN. FTP over the LAN worked fine--but what's the point of that?
It took me a long while to figure out that it was the static IP address that was causing it. I had reserved that IP address on the Router, and forwarded port 21 and everything to that address, but the ports still were not getting forwarded.
I changed the Freenas Nic back to DHCP, and suddenly port forwarding worked.
My hypothesis, is that since the Netgear didn't hand out the address via DHCP, it failed to realize that the freenas was connected (even though the connected devices list showed it), and did not forward the port to a computer that was not "connected."
So my solution is to actually fake static-IP. Technically the Freenas Nic is set for dynamic IP address; however,The freenas mac address is remembered on the Netgear to always receive the same address via DHCP.
I just thought others might like to know my findings.
Thank you.
Sincerely, Sean