How to open a TCP/IP port?

[David Renström]

Hi Krister!

No, as you may have read in my earlier replies, my problem was not related 
to the router. I was never trying to access the Linux box from outside the 
router, but only from another computer on the same LAN. Port forwarding is 
no problem, because I've an Apache Web server on the same computer running 
MySQL and a friend of mine was able to access it from his computer (about 
90 kilometres away). However, everything seems to be working now... Thanks 
anyway.

Regards,
/David R.
At 10:37 2004-05-20 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi.
>It sounds to me like you're behind a router of some sort. If i'm not way
>way out here, what you want to do is to forward the port from your
>external to your internal ip address. I don't know what your router
>calls this, but on my DLink DI-604, it's called "virtual server". You do
>portforwarding from the admin interface of the router which usually is
>called by pointing your browser to http://192.168.0.1. (the address is
>taken from the admin interface of my router, but should be similar for
>yours, check the docs for the router.) Note that you might have to go
>into windblows to configure the router as Lynx unfortunately doesn't
>support Javascript and Links2 supports Javascript but apparently not
>cookies.
>HTH
>/Krister
>On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:21:15AM +0200, David Renstr?m wrote:
> > Hi list members!
> >
> > I've isolated the problem of me not being able to remotely connect to my
> > MySQL server. If I use the nmap command to scan port 3306 with the 
> loopback
> > as argument, it works fine (it reports that the port is open). But, if I
> > use the local IP address of the host (192.168.0.82) it doesn't. Somehow,
> > the TCP/IP port is blocked. My question is quite simple: How do I open 
> this
> > port? Another question would be why it's closed in the firstplace... :-(
> >
> > Please help me solve this problem, cause it's driving me nuts for the
> > moment!!
> >
> > Kindest Regards,
> > /David R.
> >
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