portforwarding

[zander]

hi,

i am trying to add another server with a static ip address to my wlan with bubba setup in scenario 4.

in scenario 4 bubba acts as the router/firewall for the wlan. subsequently i believe that i must configure bubba for portforwarding to make the server behind the bubba/router/firewall accessable to the web.

the new server (oznola) is ubuntu server 9.10 and seems to be working correctly. i can access oznola's web page by entering http://oznola.localdomain on other machines in my wlan.

i want to assign oznola a static ip address and have bubba portforward or open a public port to that address.

is this a sound plan?

if yes how do i configure bubba to portforward to oznola?

i think it can be done using the bubba admin firewall interface "open port / add portforward" admin->network->firewall.

there are four fields "source ip" , "public port", "private port" and "private ip"

my plan is to set...
"source ip" == "all" (default)
"public port" == ??? (i don't know what public port should be)
"private port" == ??? (i don't know what private port should be)
"private ip" == ??? (but i think it should be the static ip for oznola)

the other option is protocol tcp or udp. i think this should be tcp.

does anyone know what ports should be used?

please advise

[Henri]

Hi

You can try it with like this.

source ip: all
public port: 80
Port 80 is the general port used for http services.
It seems that you need to open port 443 also, if you are planning to serve secured https web pages. Need to do another rule in Bubba's firewall for port 443.
private port: 80
private ip: IP of your Ubuntu server
Protocol: TCP

I guess this should work if you are not using your Bubba's web server, which is also listening port 80.

[zander]

hi henry,

ty for the help.

i have gotten it to work like this...

source ip=all
public port=1234 (anything between 1024 and 65535)
private pot=80
private ip=<private.ip.address>

and then access the new server like this http://<ip.address>:1234

to my surprise i have two servers working like this now behind bubba in server/router/firewall mode http://alonzofretwell.com:1234 and http://alonzofretwell.com:1235 both listening to private port 80.