WRT54GL Port Forward Fail!

dbmzk1 · 5 Dec 2008 at 02:07

Hi,

I've got a WRT54GL 1.1 router here, about 8 months old. It has been working flawlessly just as I knew it would... until now!

No matter what I try I can't get it to forward ports! UPnP seems to work fine, but port forwarding and even DMZ doesn't. I've tried everything I can possibly think of, including several hard resets and updated firmware, as suggested by Linksys. Nothing seems to help.

Does anyone have any idea as to what might be up, as both OcUK and Linksys want me to return the router before they send a replacement meaning I would be without Internet!!!... for like a week!!!

Cheers.

benjo plz. · 5 Dec 2008 at 14:04

I'd just download this tbh

Skidilliplop · 5 Dec 2008 at 14:12

What ports are you trying to get forwarded? Certain ISPs block certain ports at their end, hence no matter what you do at your end it will appear to fail.

dbmzk1 · 5 Dec 2008 at 15:40

benjo plz. said:
I'd just download this tbh

I'm sure doing that voids the warranty. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't help...

Skidilliplop said:
What ports are you trying to get forwarded? Certain ISPs block certain ports at their end, hence no matter what you do at your end it will appear to fail.

Tried loads and it doesn't seem to work. I'm on Virgin Media and they don't block ports. The main one I'm trying is 27015 so I can run a L4D server, but I also tried ports associated with FTP, VNC, SMTP etc, even tried DMZ and still nothing.

pennywise · 5 Dec 2008 at 15:54

dbmzk1 said:
I'm sure doing that voids the warranty. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't help...

It doesn't, since if you mess it up you can just do a hardware reset and get everything back to factory settings with the stock firmware.

dbmzk1 · 5 Dec 2008 at 15:57

pennywise said:
It doesn't, since if you mess it up you can just do a hardware reset and get everything back to factory settings with the stock firmware.

1) It does, plus if it bricks and you can't flash back then it leaves you in a mess
2) I'm going going to say I'd do it on here when I'm looking at returning it to here

3) Pretty damn sure it wouldn't help...

Rainmaker · 5 Dec 2008 at 16:38

Oh noes! You might void the warranty on a £30 router by transferring/updating to infinitely superior firmware!

There are plenty of ways to restore one, even bricked, if it came to it. I've flashed dozens of times between different versions of Tomato, Tomato-Speed-Mod, Victek's Tomato and DD-WRT etc. Never had a problem.

Tomato works superbly and is well worth the 2 minutes it takes to make the switch and get set up again. Give it a go :cool:

EDIT: The WRT54GL was brought out as a replacement for the newer WRT54G which transferred away from GNU/Linux firmware to VXWorks. The Linux/hacker types cried out they wanted GPL firmware to play with, so Linksys/Cisco brought out the G*L* (for Linux) to keep those folks happy. Why provide GPL firmware so it can be changed, if you're not allowed to change it?

ns400r · 5 Dec 2008 at 16:59

Do you have a firewall running that is blocking things?

benjo plz. · 5 Dec 2008 at 20:03

dbmzk1 said:
1) It does, plus if it bricks and you can't flash back then it leaves you in a mess
2) I'm going going to say I'd do it on here when I'm looking at returning it to here
3) Pretty damn sure it wouldn't help...

1. I'm pretty sure it doesn't, as it's sold as an open source router.
3. I'm 100% damn sure it will. But hey, if you want to stay with your broken Linksys firmware... be my guest.

dbmzk1 · 5 Dec 2008 at 22:56

Rainmaker said:
Oh noes! You might void the warranty on a £30 router by transferring/updating to infinitely superior firmware! There are plenty of ways to restore one, even bricked, if it came to it. I've flashed dozens of times between different versions of Tomato, Tomato-Speed-Mod, Victek's Tomato and DD-WRT etc. Never had a problem.

Tomato works superbly and is well worth the 2 minutes it takes to make the switch and get set up again. Give it a go

EDIT: The WRT54GL was brought out as a replacement for the newer WRT54G which transferred away from GNU/Linux firmware to VXWorks. The Linux/hacker types cried out they wanted GPL firmware to play with, so Linksys/Cisco brought out the G*L* (for Linux) to keep those folks happy. Why provide GPL firmware so it can be changed, if you're not allowed to change it?

£40 is not pocket change to me and if my router is faulty I want to be able to return it. As I got it from OcUK I don't think saying I installed something that voids the warranty on their forums would be a good idea.

ns400r said:
Do you have a firewall running that is blocking things?

No, nothing.

benjo plz. said:
1. I'm pretty sure it doesn't, as it's sold as an open source router.
3. I'm 100% damn sure it will. But hey, if you want to stay with your broken Linksys firmware... be my guest.

1) It does. The stock firmware is open source, hence why they sell it as such. It does not mean you can put anything on it that is not official.
2) I am infinitely damn sure it will not help me..........

St0rmer66 · 5 Dec 2008 at 23:10

Why did you even bother posting if you're going to just ignore any suggestion which will help? Changing the firmware is your best chance of fixing the problem and it turns an average router into a great one.

dbmzk1 · 5 Dec 2008 at 23:14

St0rmer66 said:
Why did you even bother posting if you're going to just ignore any suggestion which will help? Changing the firmware is your best chance of fixing the problem and it turns an average router into a great one.

Changing the firmware will *NOT* fix my problem.

benjo plz. · 5 Dec 2008 at 23:44

dbmzk1 said:
Changing the firmware will *NOT* fix my problem.

it's not a firmware as such, it's a wrt linux distro running busybox, and it WILL fix your problem.

As for the warranty, the OcUK description says this

Carrying on the Linux heritage for enthusiasts is the WRT54GL, a device with a Linux kernel and 200MHz processor. You then have a choice of custom firmware you can download for better configuration.

Mr. Brightside · 5 Dec 2008 at 23:49

dbmzk1 said:
Changing the firmware will *NOT* fix my problem.

Surely in order to know that you would have to know all the possible solutions and then check to see if the suggestions given exist within that set.

Given that you are able to judge whether a solution will work I must conclude that you already know the solutions.

If this is not the case, I conclude that you are being silly.

dbmzk1 · 6 Dec 2008 at 00:04

Ok, Linksys said it would void the warranty, that's all I know and if this is the case I'm going to admit to doing it on the forums of the company I'm wanted to return the product too if it is faulty.

I know for an absolute total fact that Tomato will not solve my problem

benjo plz. · 6 Dec 2008 at 00:25

well you better get your router in the post then.

dbmzk1 said:
I know for an absolute total fact that Tomato will not solve my problem

bull.

dbmzk1 · 6 Dec 2008 at 00:41

benjo plz. said:
well you better get your router in the post then.
bull.

If you are not going to help please just don't post at all.

As I said, I know for a fact that Tomato, or any other firmware, will not help.

FrenchTart · 6 Dec 2008 at 00:45

Read between the line a little please people.

tolien · 6 Dec 2008 at 00:47

You've tried any sensible suggestions, and you're not willing to change the firmware.
There's nothing else to do other than return it, and there's no point in this thread going in circles.