Well, here's an update... I spent over 1-1/5hours on a call with Linksys tech support. They basically told me that my computer was dropping the connection to the Linksys (but that the Linksys was still holding the connection to the ISP). So, I went back to the ss5200 as my pppoe unit. I took the linksys out of the loop and got my vnc up and running again.
Long story short, the linksys was changing it's ip (192.168.254.1 to .2, to .3 randomly) and the forwarded ports on the ss5200 went to the wrong ip. So I set the linksys to static ip and all is well!! (so far! :) ) Thanks for the help Rob On 2/2/06, Scott C. Best <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob: > > Heya. Great description of the problem. :) Double NAT'ing, > though, ouch. That's painful. Do you need to run the 5200 in router > mode? Put another way, does anything else to connect to it besides > the LinkSys? If not, it's overkill and "bridge" mode might work > better. > > Anyhow...it seems that you've got everything setup correctly > on the 5200 (otherwise the GoToMyVNC scan wouldn't work). Problem is, > it's very possible that your workplace firewall is not allowing > outgoing connections to TCP 590x. Many commercial-grade firewalls > restrict outbound traffic to a handful of "well known" services > (eg. SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS, etc). > > First thing to try is: setup your 5200 to forward TCP 443 > on the external side to your Linksys' TCP 5901. Then setup the > Linksys to forward external TCP 5901 to your Mac listening on > TCP 5901. Then try to connect to "your.ip.address::443" with the > VNC Viewer at work, where "your.ip.address" is the same as what > GoToMyVNC connects to. > > This may work, as TCP 443 is usually associated with HTTPS > traffic, and your workplace firewall may let it out by default. If > that doesn't work, write back and we'll try something else... > > hope that helps, > Scott > > > > Hey Ya'll > > > > Let me first say I have searched and searched and searched this!! > > I've got a mac running OsxVnc. Set up to use port 5901. I'm on > > alltel dsl. I've got a Speedstream 5200 (in router mode) and a > > Linksys WRT54g router. The 5200 handles my pppoe connections. I've > > tried forwarding ports 5501, 5801, and 5901 to 192.168.254.1 (and.2) > > on the 5200. I've forwarded the same ports on the linksys to my > > computers internal ip (192.168.x.x). The 5200 uses dhcp. I can't > > connect thru realvnc from work (a pc) to my mac. WHen I use > > gotomyvnc.com from home mac, it shows port 5901 responding only when > > the 5200 is set to forward 5901 to 192.168.254.2. BUt I still can't > > connect from work. > > > > I've also tried setting the 5200 in brg mode. THen I let the linksys > > handle my pppoe. But, I kept losing my internet connection. I'm not > > really sure what was wrong there. So, I reset it to handle the pppoe, > > and reset the linksys to defaults. > > > > Can anyone help me out and walk me thru this setup? _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
