topic Re: Port Forwarding - Issue finding Internal and External Ports. in Broadband & Landline

Port Forwarding - Issue finding Internal and External Ports.

solone07 — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 12:47:17 GMT

Quite a specifc subject but I still am struggling to find what to do although seeing online many videos giving advice on how to get your port itself from the command prompt using "netstat -a". Although that, I am confused on what figures I have to look at and put in, in the attached image below:

What exactly do I place in there? The other settings I am fine with, but its just that.

Re: Port Forwarding - Issue finding Internal and External Ports.

XRaySpeX — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 13:00:32 GMT

Just what are you trying to port forward? Whatever it is should tell you what of its port need forwarding.

Port forwarding is used so a remote user can access a server running on your LAN w/out you 1st soliciting them. So only incoming ports need forwarding.

Re: Port Forwarding - Issue finding Internal and External Ports.

solone07 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 11:06:44 GMT

I am just trying to port forward my computer so that I can create a server as you stated. Per chance, where would I find what ports I need as you stated it should tell me?

Thank you for your reply and help here 👍

Re: Port Forwarding - Issue finding Internal and External Ports.

XRaySpeX — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 11:28:04 GMT

It all depends on what type of server you want to create. It's not just the PC as a whole per se.

For example, you might want your PC to act as FTP Server. Then you'd install some FTP Server s/ware on it & open port 21. You see, port 21 goes with an FTP Server & so on, particular ports for specific servers.