Questions tagged [wan]
WAN or Wide Area Network is one that spans more than one geographical area, usually across city, regional or national boundaries. The Internet is an example of a WAN.
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What should remote IP be in configuring port forwarding
My server is running locally on port 7000. I want to access it remotely using public IP. I want to create a port forwarding what will be the below fields should look like given in the picture.
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Cannot access any websites when using whitelist Access Control feature on my TP-Link router
I am following the very basic instructions to set up Access Control on my TP-Link router. I want my hosts to be able to access only a few specific websites, however with my setup, the only website I ...
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SSH timeout over WAN
I have an openssh server set up on my homelab that I want to be able to connect to remotely. I have forwarded the port and tried to connect to it on LAN using the public ip of my homelab. However I ...
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Pinging a website from a cloud server in private network on hetzner over opnsense router not working
I am a newbie in nategateway and networking
I want to make a cloud server in a private network accessible to the internet through opnsense. I am using hetzner cloud provider
I tried to ping google ip (...
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Has anyone ran a pfsense firewall behind a Starlink dish and successfully deployed OpenVPN?
So I've connected my Netgate pfsense firewall directly to my starlink dish (gen 1 router with round dish) successfully, and have WAN/LAN running smoothly. Port1WAN 192.168.
I followed this video and ...
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Zyxel NR5101 - WAN direction?
I'm looking at Zyxel NR5101 product specifications where it says:
Two 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet RJ-45 LAN ports, LAN1 can be configured for Ethernet WAN port
I'm used to having Asus routers where I ...
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8P8C non standard connector?
A short backstory to clarify the issue.
Not long ago I bought a used home router from CISCO, model EA6300V1 to increase the speed of my local network up to 1 Gbps.
The local network works fine after I ...
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Connecting PC ethernet port to WAN port of router
I would like to perform nmap scanning on the WAN port of my router from my PC by connecting the ethernet port of the PC directly to the WAN port of the router. How can I assign an IP address to the ...
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Setting up a firewall to be in front of my devices using public IP
I'm currently using USG FLEX 500 firewall device from Zyxel.
It has 6 unused ports.
I have 7 PCs each with public IP address assigned to it. I would like to set the firewall up in a way that when ...
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How to setup two interfaces on one NAS to isolate WAN and maximize LAN traffic speed?
How should I setup my NAS network settings to isolate WAN and LAN traffic on each physical interfaces (1 and 2) to maximize LAN traffic speed? Or does another option exist to achieve this result ...
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Connecting LAN of first router to WAN of second router not working
So I have 2 routers
(first provided by the ISP: Speedport smart 3)
(second is my personal: Tp-link Archer AX23 AX1800)
And what I want is to connect my second router to the router provided by my ...
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Cannot ssh anymore via no-ip hostname, works with wan ip, nslookup gives nxdomain
After extensive search of this forum to no avail, I post my issue here.
I have a small machine running pop!OS 22.04 at home that I use to host a few pages with nginx.
To do so, I have a no-ip domain (...
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Determine LAN and WAN IP address
Is there a simple way to determine the LAN and WAN IP address of a connected device?
I frequently need to check the local and external IP addresses of devices, especially mobile devices, but I tend to ...
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Connect my ftp server, filezilla client works well, why ftp command line fails?
I'm trying to build up Excel VBA programmatically and expect it could download some files from the server via the FTP command line. The server which I set up at my home local network(experimental ...
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What would cause network traffic to spike in evenly distributed spurts?
This happens periodically, and I am looking into ways to monitor network traffic more closely, but it looks like my WAN2 (in) traffic bounces in almost perfect intervals, and at the same peak usage. ...
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