Hi, I appreciate the replies, I'm having to conclude a degree of "faulty
device" and will contact the supplier today. I'm satisfied the settings
on the page are sane, it does some sanity checking on the settings
anyway, required IP address is definitely a host not a network. A
vanilla konqueror isn't successful either nor 4 other browsers and if it
requires an exact java match rather than 6u20-something or 6u30 then
that's too much to ask. I'm sure it's a coding bug and perhaps just
with that page as anything else seems fine.
Thanks everyone,
Roger
On 11/03/12 9:46 PM, Adrian Mageanu wrote:
On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 20:53 +1300, Roger Searle wrote:
Hi, I replaced my aged and failing dsl router with a TP-Link TD-8840T. I
attempt making this sufficiently on topic by mentioning it connects to
my trusty linksys wrt54gl and on to various linux boxes primarily my
mythtv back and front ends, and mint desktop.
Efforts to set up port forwarding fail simply in that the "save" button,
while appearing to click, just will not function to actually save a set
of start/end ports, protocol and destination IP address that is
entered. This device is fairly close to the factory settings, only
having changed the LAN IP addressing to be 10.1.1.0/8 so as to be
different from the network inside the linksys. NAT is enabled on the
relevant virtual circuit, I am using the "virtual servers" section under
Advanced Settings> NAT on page 24, 25 of the manual below if that is
helpful for anyone wanting to see what I see. I've attempted numerous
variations of port numbers, protocol, using built in "application" combo
box or custom entry, and am yet to see an entry appear in the listing of
rules.
I have already updated to the latest firmware, tried multiple browsers
(even resorting to using IE) all to no avail. My googling fails to find
anything that helps.
Does anyone have experience resolving a similar situation? Where a
button of some sort won't work initially? Or have any suggestions what
I could try? It seems to function in any other regard, so not
physically faulty, I wonder if some other setting means the virtual
server settings won't save, but really have no clue what/where.
This is the router:
http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?model=td-8840t
and manual here:
http://www.tp-link.com/resources/software/201121711212519.pdf
Cheers,
Roger
My first thought was a security feature in the browser, like an add-on
or something similar like blocked popups or third party cookies,
providing you were using FF, but you said you tried with IE too and the
behaviour is the same, so probably that's not the case.
Another possibility may be that the version of java required by that
particular page is not the one you're using. Happened to me with an
older network device and after I downgraded the java version all worked
without a hitch.
Also give Seamonkey or Chrome a try.
Or it may be that the interface didn't like the parameters you entered
but doesn't fire any error messages to tell you why. I had something
like that with an old Thomson where it turned out that to specify the
network range you had to put the sufix for its range (e.g.
192.168.1.0/24) but there was no place for /24 in the web interface. So
to make it work I had to save the current configuration file, modify it
to my liking and then upload it to make the desired changes. The clue
for me there was that there was no place on that page where to define
the network mask - google was helpful here, I was not the only one in
that situation.
Give it a try, but be careful because if you make a major mistake you'll
have to reset it by hand and start all over again with its setup.
HTH,
Adrian
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