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BobMCT

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Running RT-N66U successfully for a while and I want to upload the nvram-save files for use. I'm using port forwarding on port 21 to one of my servers so I've set the router ftp port to 2021. Accessing by IP:port didn't work so I setup a port fwd/trigger for same. Still no luck.

So could someone please advise what must be set to allow access to this port? I should be able to figure this out but the brain is getting rusty.

Thanks -
 
Under WAN-> Virtual Server / Port Forwarding you should have something like the following.

Service Name: FTP-Router
Port Range: 2021
Local IP: 192.168.1.1 (or whatever your Router IP is)
Local Port: 21
Protocol: TCP or Both should work
Click Add
Click Apply

A reboot wouldn't hurt if it doesn't work right away.
 
FYI - No matter what I tried to define to enable ftp it would somehow stop anyone from reaching the internet. So what I did was enable ssh and I used scp to move the file(s) that I needed. Thanks for the info and I'll retry that sometime in the future.
 

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