Port forwarding to enable IP access to alarm

fitzie79

Hi, I am trying to enable remote access to my home alarm. From what I have read I need to forward port 443 on my router. I have a Huawei HG658 router. Looking at various pages it's directing me to the settings as illustrated by the screen capture below. However, I'm not sure what to do here. Do I type port 443 and if so where? Do I need to change any other settings?

Nonoperational

fitzie79 wrote: »

Hi, I am trying to enable remote access to my home alarm. From what I have read I need to forward port 443 on my router. I have a Huawei HG658 router. Looking at various pages it's directing me to the settings as illustrated by the screen capture below. However, I'm not sure what to do here. Do I type port 443 and if so where? Do I need to change any other settings?

Drop the interface drop box to PTM_TR069
Remote host is blank
external start and end ports 443
internal host: static IP address of alarm
internal port 443

Not sure if an alarm should be TCP only or TCP/UDP

fitzie79

thanks for the response!

fitzie79

I'm having difficulty trying to get this port open. I've configured the router as shown below. When i try to go to canyouseeme.org I cant seem to see the port though - it reports a time out error.

is there any other setting that i should be enabling? I've tried all 3 protocol options but none of them seem to work

ZENER

Can you access the alarm from the internal network ? Does it respond on port 443 ?

Ken

degsie

Port 443 is generally used for serving up secure http.

http://www.speedguide.net/port.php?port=443

It's possible that this may be blocked by your ISP as some dont like users serving websites.

Can the port number be changed on the alarm?

fitzie79

ZENER wrote: »

Can you access the alarm from the internal network ? Does it respond on port 443 ?

Ken

i can access the alarm from the internal network by going directly to the ip address (https://192.168.1.13). when i try to check if the port is open on canyouseeme.org it doesn't show up as visible.

fitzie79

degsie wrote: »

Port 443 is generally used for serving up secure http.

http://www.speedguide.net/port.php?port=443

It's possible that this may be blocked by your ISP as some dont like users serving websites.

Can the port number be changed on the alarm?

i've tried googling por 443 for vodafone but can't find anything concrete to say if it's blocked.

not sure if it's possible to change the port on the alarm but i'll look into that too

ZENER

fitzie79 wrote: »

i can access the alarm from the internal network by going directly to the ip address (https://192.168.1.13). when i try to check if the port is open on canyouseeme.org it doesn't show up as visible.

If the alarm is on 192.168.1.13 then why are you porting 443 to 192.168.1.100 ? Have you set a static address on the alarm ?

Ken

degsie

ZENER wrote: »

If the alarm is on 192.168.1.13 then why are you porting 443 to 192.168.1.100 ? Have you set a static address on the alarm ?

Ken

That might explain something alright.

fitzie79

sorry - typo when i mentioned 192.168.1.13 - one of the solutions i tried was to change the alarm ip address and to port to that new ip address. this didnt work so i set the alarm back to 192.168.1.100. the port forwarding is set to this as well at the moment

ZENER

I'm not familiar with your router so forgive me if this is a stupid question. Have you opened port 443 inbound on your routers firewall ? Some routers will do this automatically once you open a port in NAT, yours might not ? No harm checking.

Ken

fitzie79

ZENER wrote: »

I'm not familiar with your router so forgive me if this is a stupid question. Have you opened port 443 inbound on your routers firewall ? Some routers will do this automatically once you open a port in NAT, yours might not ? No harm checking.

Ken

Any idea where i might be able to check this? I've looked around the menus but nothing shows up. My router is a Huawei HG658C.

ZENER

In the picture you posted in your OP there's a Firewall node just above the current open node. If you can post a screen grab of that maybe we could guide you ?

Ken

fitzie79

ZENER wrote: »

In the picture you posted in your OP there's a Firewall node just above the current open node. If you can post a screen grab of that maybe we could guide you ?

Ken

There's not much in this menu but screen shot attached.

ZENER

In the drop down menu where it currently shows - PTM-TR069-VOIP-INTERNET-R-VID-10 - are there any other options ? The VOIP thing doesn't look right. It may just be customisation by VF but on another site is gives a different option in that drop down that makes more sense.

In the Application drop down is there a HTTPS option ?

Ken