dbirdman
Premium,MVM
join:2003-07-07
Eureka, CA
| reply to halon
Re: [HN7000S] Hughes 7000S Modem and port mapping for IP devices
Are you manually assigning your IP? The modem will not automatically assign the static IP to a device, it will just give it a private 192.168.0.x IP with no port forwarding. Read the FAQ here for details: »Satellite Forum FAQ »I have a DW7x00 account with a static IP. How do I use it?
I would never run a computer with the static IP - all ports are forwarded, and it presents too much risk to have such a direct internet connection. I would always use a router as the first device off the modem, assign it the static IP, and forward within the router as needed.
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halon
join:2007-07-11
Pleasanton, CA
| dbirdman,
Thanks for the reply! I was told by Apple that there was no way to shut down the Airport Extreme's internal firewall... we had been trying to go through that router for many attempts.. without success. We did manually assign the addresses and ports but to no avail... I will reread the FAQ you mentioned and see if there is something I missed
As far as not having a computer on line with a static IP w/o going through the router... the computers are all going through a router.... the only things hooked up directly to the modem are the IP devices....through the hub... the IP thermostats each have an internal 'server' to send and receive their digital signals to the main company website... so I don't see a security issue there as I see no way for someone to get in to the LAN..... or am I missing something?
I will contact Hughesnet and ask again which of the several addresses they provide is REALLY the static IP.... and IF the modem's firewall is indeed turned off.
Thanks.... Halon |
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dbirdman
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join:2003-07-07
Eureka, CA
| OK, that wasn't clear. The device that has the static IP has to be the one you want to address, in this case, a thermostat.
With the way you have it, using a hub, each thermostat would have to have its own public static IP, and if you have only one, you can only have one thermostat in use.
Using a router (and I've never understood why Mac users insist on using Airports when cheap off-the-shelf Linksys, etc., work fine with a Mac) you could port forward to multiple thermostats as long as the incoming requests are on different ports.
If they all have to use the same port there is no solution except to get more than one static IP from Hughes.
Again, understand that it is not the modem that gets the static IP - it is the device you want to address. Computer, camera, thermostat, or more commonly a router that then forwards to those other devices.
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dbirdman
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Eureka, CA
1 edit | As far as which IP is the static one, it is an IP one higher than the modem's IP, and must use the 255.255.255.252 mask.
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