Linksys Wrk54G and Linux TS2 Problem

[Sean Saunders]

Good Evening,

Now i know before i start theres gonna be a "this has been asked" kinda replym but i have tried every single solution here, and even stripped my whole network and rebuilt it to solve this problem.

Well, i have had my server delivered this afternoon with everything set up on it, including Mandrake Linux 10.1 Community running in INIT mode 4 Non interactive startup, and also TS2 to load on startup with server turned on on port 8767 UDP.

With my router, it is a WRK54G, rare UK Model, and i am having nothing but problems with this.

The server in question has an internal IP of 192.168.2.102, which if you type that into tramspeak on another internal machine with the port 8767 on the end works perfectly, so i know its not the server thats the problem.

I first of all set up the port forwarding. In this as Screenshot 1 will show, i have set the ports all to 8767 on UDP, and set the ip number of the server to 192.168.2.102, which means this should work with an external ip of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8767 in theory, but i get the message:

"[23:39:57] No reply from server
Maybe the server is offline
or maybe teamspeak is not running on it"

This is where i got confused, so i decided to try the uPnP forwarding, and again set the ports to 8767 UDP, and the ip to go to 192.168.2.102, and when connecting from my external ip on port 8767 through TS, it doesnt work and i get the above error message.

Finally, i have tried turning on DMZ to ip 192.168.2.102, and this doesnt work either, which means something is seriously wrong, and i am hoping someone here can help me in finding out what the problem is.

If anyone know what the problem is, i urge you to either reply to this thread, e-mail me on seansaunders[AT]Gmail.com or get me on MSN with the address seansaunders[AT]gmail.com as well.

I thank you all in advance, this is really bugging me!

Sean Saunders


Port Forwarding Image (http://www.eckosolutions.co.uk/1.JPG)
uPnP forwarding Image (http://www.eckosolutions.co.uk/2.JPG)

[guldi]

but i get the message:
"[23:39:57] No reply from server
Maybe the server is offline
or maybe teamspeak is not running on it"
and have you read the FAQ thread about WHO should use WHICH IP ?
pls, read the no reply FAQ again (see my signature), I guess you missed something which is written down.

[Sean Saunders]

Hi,

I have read the FAQ's which you asked me to read, tried the possible solutions again that are stated, and reset the router to a clean slate, and added in all the port forwardings again.

When i have done this, i have tested the connection again, and still it will work internally, but from a WAN point of view, no-one on the outside of my network can connect at all, and get the no server error message once again.

Any further assistance would be greatful.

Sean Saunders

[guldi]

Ok, what my point was is that you said that YOU tried the external IP. I assume you tried this from within your own LAN, did I got you right ?
The FAQ gives a clear statement that you should NOT do that.

[Sean Saunders]

Have tested it from an external computer and still no luck. I believe it is the port forward on the router any help

[guldi]

- firewall on router which isn't configured correctly
- wrong port forwarding
- bad firmware on router
- wrong external IP used
- linux server has firewall which doesn't accepts packets from the router

All things I can't really help apart from telling you to check them again (you can do them either wrong or right). Too many things you can do wrong => use your network knowledge and tools (network scanners) to find why packets do not reach the server.


Do you by any chance get a timeout (see client.log) form external (=> test the debug mode as recommended in the FAQ) or does your server has more then one IP interface (see FAQ thread "not all can connect" or something similar) ?