said by aefstoggaflm:I want to be sure that the router is not blocking the ports so that I can start the server and then users from the net can connect to me.
....as dave
says, you're doing it backwards.
Nmap from the inside and outside of your network could do this. Also, you could easily try Shields Up from grc.com.
That'd be the fastest way to check this out.
As for this comment
said by aefstoggaflm:I want to see if traffic is coming in from the outside, regardless of how the software firewall is setup...
...not sure what you mean by "coming from the outside"? Do you mean coming from your router / firewall's WAN port,
or from a non-RF1918 IP address?
...still not clear what exactly you're trying to do here aefstoggaflm
.
Regards