Has anyone gotten their wiport or Xport to work over the internet?
I made a java applet and loaded it onto my WiPort. I followed the instructions here: tinyurl.com/cqdpze
Everything works great on my LAN, but when I try to go through the internet (thus through the router) the tcpip connection fails. The applet loads up fine, but shows “connection failed”.
a lot of routers don’t allow inbound connection attempts unless it’s through a mapped port so you’ll probably need to setup some maps in your router for it. seems like there was some documentation on Lantronix site about the redirector and what ports it uses so have a look there. worst case you can send their tech support an e-mail and ask them directly. I’ve not used any of their stuff outside of my LAN so not much more personal experience help to offer there. sorry.
In the interim, did you try using a fixed IP for the xport (using it’s MAC address to assign a fixed IP in the router) and then putting that IP address in the DMZ on the router? that should in theory bypass much of the need for opening ports and stuff on the router.
Eddie,
After much trouble I got the port forwarding on my router working. I even setup an account at dyndns.org so I just go to a regular url to access the wiport. The applet actually loads up fine, but the connection to the wiport’s serial port (port 10001) fails.
The problem is I don’t know how to deal with acessing two ports. I need to access port 80 of the router and port 10001 of the wiport. I’m not sure how to do that.
I have an e-mail into tech support. I’ll let you know what they say.
Apparently (and it makes sense now) the port number that the router forwards must match the port number the wiport assigns to the serial port. So, in my case I forwarded port 10001 on the router to the wiport, and set the java applet to connect to port 10001 and it all works perfectly!
Very cool…
If anyone has troubles getting it all setup, let me know because I think I’ve made every mistake possible in trying to get this thing to work!