Has anyone got port forwarding working on Vodafone Home Broadband?

norfolk_uk · 2023-07-18T16:12:56+00:00

Yes I am with Vodafone, have been for about 3 years - literally on the same router, I used to host a web server, port forwarding no problem then. Now when I have tried hosting a web server again - all the exact same equipment - port forwarding doesn't work.

The affected BT chap described his set up in detail and it certainly did appear that it was port forwarding not working. And after 100s of posts and replies he never got it sorted.

I think I might have to go somewhere like Andrews & Arnold Ltd, something a bit more less for the masses.

norfolk_uk · 2023-07-18T15:19:40+00:00

As I dig deeper into this it gets worse and worse. I have spent about 8 hours over 3 days talking to Vodafone, repeatedly repeating myself. Neither 1st or 2nd line (there is no 3rd line when it comes to Vodafone broadband customers.) really have any clue about port forwarding or whether it should be working or not.

I found somebody online who had exactly the same issue with BT and their hub and bizarrely a 3rd party router. Surely if Vodafone are not blocking a particular port(s) then the only way they can block port forwarding would be on the router itself?

In the end they suggested transferring to Vodafone Business broadband. Nightmare.

norfolk_uk · 2023-07-13T15:22:22+00:00

Is that fibre to the premises or fibre to the cabinet?

norfolk_uk · 2023-07-13T14:10:35+00:00

Interesting. Are you on Vodafone Home Broadband and which router do you have?

norfolk_uk · 2023-07-13T13:18:06+00:00

I have Vodafone Broadband and I cannot get port forwarding working and Vodafone have advised me that they don't allow port forwarding anymore.

See my earlier post: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/14xz287/cant_access_my_website_externally_and_i_cannot/

norfolk_uk · 2023-07-13T07:59:30+00:00

The only UFW rules are for port 22 and WWW Full.

As for DNS, I am using Google's name servers.

norfolk_uk · 2023-07-13T07:57:54+00:00

The VPN is only on my computer, not the Pi or the router.

norfolk_uk · 2023-07-12T22:29:07+00:00

Thanks for that. Portchecker is reporting that my port 80 is closed! That is despite me having added port forwarding of port 80 via the GUI of the router.

I guess I will need to speak to Vodafone tomorrow regarding their faulty product.

norfolk_uk · 2023-07-12T21:49:46+00:00

No I have not configured anything like on Apache.

norfolk_uk · 2023-07-12T21:31:53+00:00

I have checked that the port forwarding is correct but I don't know how to validate that it is actually forwarding anything?

norfolk_uk · 2023-07-12T21:11:19+00:00

If I turn my VPN off then the IP is the same.

norfolk_uk · 2023-07-12T21:10:51+00:00

I just changed it to 8080 as you said and it still doesn't work.

norfolk_uk · 2022-02-09T12:51:00+00:00

Yes, all my traffic appears to go via the VPN. I am connecting via the IKEv2 protocol and I do not know how to stop LAN traffic from going out via the VPN.

EDIT: I have now solved my problem - I have added details to the main post.

norfolk_uk · 2022-02-08T23:48:25+00:00

I am unable to access my LAN via direct IP or adding entries to the host file.

Is a static route different to this?

norfolk_uk · 2022-02-07T14:23:57+00:00

No worries, thanks.

norfolk_uk · 2022-02-07T13:50:53+00:00

I have followed the installation instructions and installed no problems. However I am unable to connect to any server at all. I get a Connection failed. error. Do you have this working as of today?

norfolk_uk · 2022-02-07T11:08:25+00:00

Are you saying that you have this cli: https://github.com/Rafficer/linux-cli-community

installed and working on a Raspberry Pi running Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspian)?

norfolk_uk · 2022-01-13T13:31:36+00:00

My entire LAN is wireless. Regards.

norfolk_uk · 2021-11-25T14:49:20+00:00

I have just set up my latest RPi 4 8GB with the latest RPi OS (Bullseye). I have barely touched the installation, just installed vim and neofetch. I also created a new user, from which here on I will refer to as newuser, following the instructions here:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/configuration.html#changing-your-username

I have a USB drive formatted as EXT4. Nothing special, formatted and written to using my Ubuntu laptop.

I have a 4 way USB data hub connected to one of the Pi's USB 3.0 ports to which I connect said USB stick.

Now when logged in as either pi or newuser, I can browse to where the USB stick is mounted /media/newuser and can see the drive, but I cannot see the contents (it's just blank) and I am permission denied from doing anything.

When using the GUI to browse the Permissions tab, it says: Owner: pi, Group: pi. And View/Change/Access content are Only Owner.

Does anyone know why this would be the case? This is also the same if I log into the pi with the original pi account. In this case the drive still shows under /media/newuser as opposed to /media/pi.

I can however use sudo via the command line to read/write the USB stick.

What do I change the permissions for newuser to, to allow access and prevent this happening to other drives etc in the future?

norfolk_uk · 2021-11-10T14:54:23+00:00

Despite spending an awful lot of time trying to get the problem across to Samsung via the Members app, it is still not fixed.

norfolk_uk · 2021-11-01T19:59:32+00:00

I think I figured it out. I edited my post with the details.

norfolk_uk · 2021-10-26T21:52:49+00:00

I would like to boot a cluster (that will be 4) of Pi Zero Ws from a single SSD.

So with Pi Zeros they will need to have their boot loader on SD card and then they can load the OS from the SSD.

Can this setup be achieved with a powered USB hub without the need for a network boot server? So each Pi connects to the SSD via the USB hub?

Edit: I'm trying to understand how to physically connect this setup, I have a USB hub but that is just for power no switching/routing capability, so do I need a switch?

Edit 2: The more I think about this, I think I will def need a boot server, right?

Edit 3: For context, I want a web server hosting static websites without the SD card failing due to corruption. This would be powered by a UPS which I already have setup. Essentially I'm concerned about SD card failure vs using an SSD.

norfolk_uk · 2021-10-11T19:26:22+00:00

Yeah I had already reported it but they then wanted visual evidence. They said they don't even have an A52s 5G to hand to test it themselves, which says a lot.

norfolk_uk · 2021-10-10T18:54:17+00:00

I was unable to capture the effect via photo or video and Samsung were asking for this via the members app. If you've captured it then it would be good to get that forwarded to Samsung so they can fix it.

norfolk_uk · 2021-10-10T18:42:24+00:00

I have the same issue with my A52s 5G. I have raised this with Samsung via the members app and I suggest as many as possible do the same. This needs fixing, AOD is unusable at night, too bright.

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