WRT610-N Emule issue

[nalooti]

Hi,

anyone has been experiencing a lowID and/or KAD in a Firewalled state?

Since I put my router in place between the PC and the modem, I got Low ID on emule (edonkey p2p).

I've upgraded to the 1.00.03.15 version of July 2009, disabled UPnP, and opened the required ports on my WRT610-N router for emule to listen to incoming connections but still have a LowID/KadFirewalled state on emule. I also disabled SPI feature in security tab with no change.

I wonder why those ports that should be opened seems not open (I suspect that because of the state of emule) ?

What is interesting is that I got this state just after I setup the router so that it sits between my modem and the PC.

Before I had no problem With my PC directly connected to my old modem/router. It works as a router and modem and the WRT610-N as a second router both creating two subnets in my home network. Between the two routers I have IP/Ethernet and after the modem toward Internet I have PPPoA. I mean, if I unplung the router and connect the PC again to the old router/modem, it works without changing anything on the old router. Which suggests that the problem comes from the WRT610-N.

I have opened a port on TCP and UDP on the old router toward the IP @ of my WRT. I have also opened the same port on TCP and UDP on WRT toward my PC. Do you think that port forwarding can't be done both traversing two routers doing NAT ?

Funny is that in the last release note (less than 2 weeks ago), I see few port forwarding issues "resolved".
What is Home Network Defender? WRT seems to have problems with that! How is it possible to disable it?

Thanks for any help
nalooti

 

[bigclaw]

Double-NAT is tricky to handle well. Is there a compelling reason you need the modem to be a router? If not, you can set the modem to bridge mode and use the router itself for routing. This will result in only one subnet in your network and make everything easier.

 

[nalooti]

Double-NAT is tricky to handle well. Is there a compelling reason you need the modem to be a router? If not, you can set the modem to bridge mode and use the router itself for routing. This will result in only one subnet in your network and make everything easier.

I completely agree with you. Problem is I tried this in the first place and I couldn't get it run, the WRT, configured to initiate a PPPoE tunnel to my ISP (throughout the modem in bridge mode), telling me that the PPPoE server doesn't give it an IP address!
So I configured the WRT in plain IP with DHCP client asking the modem (now working also as a router) to give it an IP address which is private.

I'd really like to discuss with you if you have configured a modem in bridge mode and the router behind building the PPP connection to the ISP.

In the meantime, i agree that double NAT is tricky and anyway I wonder if I should not allow anything , any port to pass throughout my second new router since the first one (doing PPP with the ISP) which is configured as a router blocks all other ports already!

thanks
nalooti