O2 Router - How to add firewall rules?

[vRS]

Hi all,

I've got a CCTV system which i access externally through a web browser.
Before migrating to O2 i used to be with ADSL24 and used the white Netgear DG834GT router.
It took me a while to set it all up and manage to get it running properly, but this was a long long time ago and cant exactly remember how i did it.

When setting up the netgear i'm sure the process was something along the lines of assigning a static IP address to all the PC's. Set up port forwarding to forward the ports used by the CCTV program (9000, 9001 and 9002) to the static IP address of the PC with the CCTV software installed. The finally make changes to the router's firwall to allow an external connection to that static IP for the PC.

Now i've migrated to O2 and i'm using the O2 router but i cant seem to get it running.

I've assinged the static IP addresses and added the application ports in 'Game & Application Sharing'. I then assigned that app to the static ip address of the PC running the software.

I then went to 'Firewall', then 'Create a new Security Level' which i cloned from the existing 'Standard' level. Then i went to add a firewall rule. However this is very different from the Netgear's interface and i think i havnt set it up correctly.

Can anyone please tell me what the correct way to set this up is, as im not sure what you put in the boxes for

Source Interface:
Source Address:
User-Defined:
Destination Interface:
Destination Address:
User-Defined:
Service:
Action:

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks

[fatzdomingo]

I am afraid that the general concensus on "other" O2 sites is that the port forwarding does not work as it should, or at all in most cases, DMZ is an even worse joke, and unfortunately O2 are completely silent about it! Suggest you borrow a decent router, try out what you need, then tell O2 what to do with their iffy kit!.........never know, you might just get offered a discount on the service!

[Tony1044]

Whilst I agree that the supplied routers aren't always the best for such as gaming, they should port forward ok.

There really shouldn't be any need to do too much to get the forwarding to work, to be honest.

All I did for my servers was add a rule under game & application sharing.

Create a new rule for the necessary ports - you say 9000-9002 but don't say if it's TCP or UDP? Assuming both for the sake of this, create a port range of 9000 - 9002 for both TCP & UDP and forward to the static IP address of your PC running the CCTV software.

You say you access it via a browser - that suggests you need to forward port 80 (http) and possibly 443 (https) as well.

There should be no requirement for setting up customised security levels, to be honest.

I've successfully opened ports for music streaming, Exchange, web, RDP, & HTTPS in the past on these routers.

However, they don't work well with gaming so I moved to a Netgear.

[Tony1044]

Just realised the age of the original post! Probably not relevant now.