How to forward many multiple ports on Sitecom WL-173

Hi,

I've set-up a lot of ports on my Sitecom WL-173. So much so I've run out of space and now I'm stuck for options on how to forward more ports.

See pic below for what I mean (I've blotted out all the details for security)



Any ideas on how I can forward more ports on this router? TBH I would have thought the router could have handled a lot more than just a few programs' ports.


Thanks,
72oo

 

Is each separate port being assigned to a different system on your network, or are some or all of them being assigned to one system?

Also, if you've another router lying around, you might try interposing it between this router and the systems you're trying to forward to, then forward a huge range of WAN ports to the router, and let the router then handle forwarding the individual ports on to the appropriate target systems. Essentially, you'd be creating a two-subnet network in your network.

 

All the ports are forwarded to just one PC, as it the specialised pc in the house with the rest of them just used for general web/email access.

I've no second router.


Would moving that PC to the DMZ solve my problems and be OK if I had a good firewall running on it? Something like Comodo?

 

Since all of the ports are being forwarded to one system, is it possible to define a range of ports that would encompass all of the relevant ports, and just use one entry on your router configuration page to forward the entire range to your specialized system using one configuration entry? Alternatively, if you could come up with, say, four port number ranges that, together, captured all of the necessary ports without also including too many unnecessary ports, you could use four of the configuration entries to forward those four separate ranges to the one specialized computer.

As for putting your specialized computer in the DMZ, I wouldn't do that if it has anything on it that's sensitive or private, or if it provides resources to the other systems on your private network, for the simple reason that, no matter how good the firewall, it would still be exposed to possible attacks, without the additional protection of the router's firewall.

 

Yea, that might work well actually! Some of the ports are just random generated ones so could move those beside the fixed ones. Also might drop some of the ports that aren't completed needed.

RE the DMZ, I guess I'll not do that so.

Thanks.

 

Let us know if it works (or if it doesn't ).