Geniego Out of Home Router setup issues...

Is your Uverse device just a modem, or is it a modem/router? If it's a modem/router, you'll need to set up port forwarding on it as well. Instead of forwarding the IP address of the GenieGo on it, forward the WAN IP address that you see on your Asus router.

 

Motleyfan, why is the first entry 8082/8083 and the second entry 8083/8083?

Was the first one intended to be 8082/8082?

For my setup my Uverse modem has both ports forwarded to the WAN IP address. 99.x.x.x
And I have a separate Netgear router after the Uverse modem with the two ports forwarded to the 192.168.x.x address of the GG box.

I don't know enough about the Asus product to help further

 

I found the manual for your Uverse device using Google. To set up port forwarding it says In the Advanced section of the main menu, select Port Forwarding, and then click Add. I can't vouch for this, but give it a try! Good luck.

 

DHCP reservations are inside the DHCP address pool, as was correctly stated earlier. Outside the address pool are just reserved addresses and usually static..networking 101 guys...

 

IMHO, DHCP reservations can be inside or outside the pool. Even Microsoft agrees: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196066

 

Unless you are using another DHCP scope, assigning IP addresses to devices outside of a scope aren't using DHCP, so no matter what MS says...it cant be a DHCP reservation. Most home routers don't have the ability to use multiple DHCP scopes. The article you referenced is referring to DHCP manager on an actual server OS managing DHCP, which allows all kinds of non-standard custom DHCP settings that are way outside of of this discussion.

 

:shrug: The last 3-4 "home" routers I've used here all allowed reservations outside the pool (Linksys, D-Link, Actiontec, Motorola). Here's what I can do with an Actiontec, e.g. As you can see, it's the DHCP server that's reserving the static IP for that MAC address, and it's outside the pool.

 

Kind of odd the CSRs told you that, because the book for that modem (available here) clearly says you can forward ports (section 3-6).

I'm late to this discussion, but one thing you can try to make sure your ISP isn't blocking anything is to put your GenieGo device in the Netgear's DMZ. Take a look at page 3-10 of that PDF. Put the LAN IP address of the GenieGo device in there and it (and only it) will be exposed to the public internet, so there will be no need to forward any ports from it. OOH should work. If that does work, then I'd try reading the section on port forwarding in 3-6 and give that another shot.

You could actually leave the GG device in the DMZ, but its a potential security risk, if a hacker figured out it was there and knew how to exploit a GenieGo device to get onto your home network.

 

I'll agree with CC, mainly on the basis that it contradicts what MS says.....

:eek2: :bang !rolling

 

Well, that is a Verizon router you have there... As mentioned, if you assign an IP address via the router to an IP address outside the DHCP range, it is not a DHCP Reservation. It is just a reserved IP address. Except for the nuance of the name, there is really no difference in how it works.

In the DHCP Reservation, the DHCP server is assigning an IP address to the device with MAC specified and the IP address you requested. Whenever that DHCP lease expires, it is renewed with the same IP address. The DHCP server also knows not to use that IP address when
assigning IP addresses to other devices.

In a reserved IP address setting (outside the DHCP range), you are just telling the router to assign a specific IP address to a device according to its MAC address. In some cases, certain routers still require this assignment to be for an amount of time. When that time is up, the router will see if the reservation is still present at which time it "renews" the lease. Other routers allow a more permanent setup since it knows it will never use that IP address as it is outside the DHCP range.


- Merg

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CCarncross. . . (Win 8.1 won't quote)

Re: your post 28 above. . . then who do you think is supplying the address to my GG -- my DHCP server on my Linksys router! Even the stock Linksys firmware now allows an address outside of the pool. And so does DD-WRT that I'm using.

Since you can't assign a STATIC address to GG, the reservation is the next best thing to do.

When GG powers up, it requests an address from the DHCP Server!

If the router goes south, the address goes away when it times out.

 

I'm able to do that with other routers as well. It's the DHCP server running inside the router that's assigning the address in either case, Merg, whether it's inside or outside the pool, which is my point. Maybe we're just arguing semantics. :shrug:

 

And the GG address is listed in the Routers DHCP usage list as a client.

 

Here's another tutorial showing how to assign a static address outside the pool using DHCP and a DD-WRT router:

http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3624251

 

That was kinda my point...

- Merg

 

Then we're in violent agreement!

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