Port Forwarding requires a reboot to work..

[TomT]

Hi

I've set port forwarding rules and they work fine.

But if I amend one to route traffic to a different device, I have to reboot the router to make it work..

It keeps sending the traffic to the OLD device until the reboot..

Any ideas ?

 

[octopus]

Try to restart firewall after you have apply your rules and test.

service restart_firewall

 

[TomT]

Thanks I will try that.
I'm not using hardware acceleration, not sure if that make a difference.

 

[octopus]

Thanks I will try that.
I'm not using hardware acceleration, not sure if that make a difference.

No

 

[TomT]

Just tried restarting the firewall rules and its not helped.
Doing iptables -t nat -L does show all the correct rules in place for Chain VSERVER

Any ideas before I reboot

 

[TomT]

Rebooted and its working fine.

Why do I have to reboot to change port forwarding rules ?

 

[L&LD]

Maybe to clear out any caches used?

 

[john9527]

What router? If it's a MIPS based router, make sure the NAT loopback type is set to ASUS and not Merlin.

 

[TomT]

It's an rt68u

Should I just be able to change the settings via the GUI and they should work.. or is a reboot needed ?

Thanks

 

[john9527]

Should I just be able to change the settings via the GUI and they should work.

It should work via the gui, and it shouldn't cause a reboot (It used to require a reboot if you had CTF enabled, but it was changed about a year ago).

But, I double checked....if you change the port forwards, in addition to
service restart_firewall
you also need to restart upnp
service restart_upnp