Mike Rubin
Occasional Visitor
I previously posted a question about internet access for two music servers connected by ethernet to a wireless bridge. However, I've explored the issue more and think that I may have asked the wrong question. Therefore, I'll take the liberty of posting a different question in this thread.
My two music servers are not receiving internet radio using the bridge, even though they used to receive it when I had a 2wire modem/router combination to which they connected wirelessly. I've concluded that the issue might be the failure of my new D-Link DIR-825 router to open ports 8000 and 8001 for the servers, precluding them from receiving shoutcast transmissions. I've tried port forwarding and creating virtual servers with those ports at the music servers' static IP addresses, but still no internet radio.
What alerted me to the possible port 8000 issue is that I also cannot enable my Buffalo NAS' web access function, which only requires UPnP to be enabled on the router or port 9000 opened. UPnP definitely is enabled because the setting is checked and because I can stream music and videos using UPnP to other devices. When I check the "use UPnP box" in Buffalo's web access setup page, I get a "UPnP-nogateway" error message. When I alternatively try to forward port 9000 to the NAS, I still can't get web access.
Like the NAS, which defaults to a static IP address, the music servers have static IP addresses (so that I can bookmark their web interface pages). I therefore have to wonder if my router has an issue with port forwarding to specified addresses or whether I am missing something obvious about port forwarding to these devices.
The router and bridge both are just beyond their RMA periods and otherwise are working really well, so I am not inclined to replace them. Worse comes to worst, I will just do without the internet radio and NAS web access, since those features are a lot less important to me than getting the rest of the network's devices playing nicely together, and I've accomplished that. However, I'd appreciate any suggestions that you might have or thoughts about why I am not having success with what I'd think would be a pretty easy thing to accomplish.
My two music servers are not receiving internet radio using the bridge, even though they used to receive it when I had a 2wire modem/router combination to which they connected wirelessly. I've concluded that the issue might be the failure of my new D-Link DIR-825 router to open ports 8000 and 8001 for the servers, precluding them from receiving shoutcast transmissions. I've tried port forwarding and creating virtual servers with those ports at the music servers' static IP addresses, but still no internet radio.
What alerted me to the possible port 8000 issue is that I also cannot enable my Buffalo NAS' web access function, which only requires UPnP to be enabled on the router or port 9000 opened. UPnP definitely is enabled because the setting is checked and because I can stream music and videos using UPnP to other devices. When I check the "use UPnP box" in Buffalo's web access setup page, I get a "UPnP-nogateway" error message. When I alternatively try to forward port 9000 to the NAS, I still can't get web access.
Like the NAS, which defaults to a static IP address, the music servers have static IP addresses (so that I can bookmark their web interface pages). I therefore have to wonder if my router has an issue with port forwarding to specified addresses or whether I am missing something obvious about port forwarding to these devices.
The router and bridge both are just beyond their RMA periods and otherwise are working really well, so I am not inclined to replace them. Worse comes to worst, I will just do without the internet radio and NAS web access, since those features are a lot less important to me than getting the rest of the network's devices playing nicely together, and I've accomplished that. However, I'd appreciate any suggestions that you might have or thoughts about why I am not having success with what I'd think would be a pretty easy thing to accomplish.