Thanks scott. - bk On 2/3/06, RJ Cherveny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > >
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