Whatever I do I can not forward port 80 from wan to my server behind wl-500gp with openwrt.  I have tried those examples in /etc/firewall.conf. Ive tried to add ip and hostname to hosts.conf and mac with ip-add to ethers. Why arent there any howto's on this subject. I've seen a lot of posts when googling aroun about people who dont now howto do this. All answers where add: iptables -P portforwaring... as described in firewall.conf but it just dosnt work.

vpn is not an alternative. Am i missing something.

Please someone do a howto and tell me if there are any dependencies that i need to install.

Im been trying to get my server on the wan side for about 4 weeks now without any success. Lan side is no problem.

(Last edited by orso on 20 Oct 2007, 22:49)

iptables -t nat -A prerouting_wan -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to 192.168.2.100
iptables        -A forwarding_wan -p tcp --dport 80 -d 192.168.2.100 -j ACCEPT

will forward port 80 to 192.168.2.100. Either execute the commands on command line or write them into /etc/firewall.user and run /etc/init.d/firewall restart. You can check if it's working with http://www.canyouseeme.org/. Make sure a service is listening on 192.168.2.100:80 otherwise canyouseeme will not show the port as opened.