Port is blocked

Hello

I've downloaded, installed, and configured Vibe, set up forwarding in the router, opened the ports in my firewall. Then I try to connect, and I can't, not even on localhost8081. I searched the forums for help getting it working, and have read many posts, the most useful of which were these two (so you know what I've read and tried)

http//www.vibestreamer.com/forum/viewt ... forwarding

http//www.vibestreamer.com/forum/viewt ... 8a671e87fb

So here's what I've done

I checked on the no-ip.com site, and the port 8081 is definitely blocked. I went into Windows Firewall, allowed access to the port there, and into mcafee firewall, and allowed it there. In my router config, I added the forwarding information, and this is where it's a little confusing. My current router ip is different than it used to be. It used to be .101, and now it's .100...the xbox and another program are both set up in there using .101, and work fine. Should I use .101, or .100 for this one?

I was going to try using the no-ip site as suggested in one of the threads, but after registering and puttering around over there for an hour, I've still no clue how to use their service to stream my music.

This is setup on a desktop at home, windows XP, connected to linksys router.

I'm at a loss as to what to try now. In both posts, the people could access it locally, but not externally, and I can't access it either way. I am willing to try a different port, but to be honest I've no idea what port number to try. I am wondering if the router is blocking this port itself, as the admin port on the router is 8080. I used a number from the post above though, 10041, and checked it on the port checker from no-ip.com, and it wasn't open either, but I hadn't gone into all the firewalls to allow it either.

Any help at all would be most appreciated, and I hope I've made sense here.

First, you might consider disabling McAfee firewall since you have two firewalls already in place, Windows firewall and the router which is acting as a firewall. As a general rule I am very security conscious but I think two firewalls is enough. I don't know for sure but it's possible that having so many firewalls might be causing some conflict.

When you say "My current router IP is different than it used to be", do you mean your computer (the one that's running Vibe) rather than router? I ask because the router's IP is usually, in the case of Linksys, 192.168.1.1. The same as the default gateway. The port forwarded to Vibe should be forwarded to the IP of the computer on which it is running. If you are using DHCP and have the computer running vibe set-up to get its IP from the router then it is possible that the IP will change from time to time when you shut down and restart that machine. For this reason I'd recommend setting that machine to have a static IP on your LAN. If I remember right this is easily done with a Linksys router. Just assign the Least Significant Byte of the IP address in the network adapter's properties to be between 2 and 100. I think DHCP on Linksys starts the assignments at 100. Keep in mind that you'll have to provide DNS info also. If you don't know your ISPs DNS address then I'd recommend Open DNS. Open DNS is not subject to DNS spoofing as are some ISP Domain Name Servers. Here's a direct link to setting-up OpenDNS on XP https//www.opendns.com/homenetwork/sta ... windows-xp

Now you said that there are two devices using IP address 101. I assume since you're on a Linksys router the full internal IP is 192.168.1.101 for those devices. The thing that bothers me is that normally two different devices on a network cannot use the same IP without causing trouble. If you have more than one device assigned to the same IP you should correct this so as to avoid IP conflict errors.

I hope this helps.

Yukiko is right. Your best bet is to start by seeing if its a firewall issue by disabling them temporarily to narrow down the issue. Past that he's also correct that each device connected to your router will have their own IP. His suggestion to run static IP addresses for your internal devices is most definitely the easiest way to make sure your services such as Vibe will work, and a much easier way to set up other services in the future.

If you need any help with how to set up static IPs, or help with configuring your router, let us know and we'll do our best to assist.

are you behind a router and a modem if so that is your problem

Before every messing with port forwarding one should first connect local via http//127.0.0.18081 or http//localhost8081. When done locally, assuming no firewalls are installed on the host system, all ports are open and accessible. It isn't even necessary to modify Windows firewall settings for the purpose of connecting locally. I typically like to use http//127.0.0.18081 to rule DNS issues. Once you get that working, then you can worry about forwarding ports.