Accessing my DTivo from the internet

[madhatr1975]

I am having trouble access my DTivo from outside of my home network. Everything works fine on my side of my Linksys router, but if I go to someone else's house or try to let someone else online access it, it will not work. I have forwarded all the ports to it that it needs and still can not telnet (23), FTP (21) or HTTP (80) to it. I have even made it the DMZ Host with no luck. Every computer in the house that I do port forwarding the same way works fine. The DTivo is running Tivolater3.1 and dials out through the network without any problems. It's ifconfig is as follows:

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet adr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask 255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet
inet adr:192.168.1.200 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask 255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:355 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:171 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0
Interrupt:29

route shows the gateway as being my router. Any ideas? Any help would be great.

[pharpe]

I would love to know the answer to this because I have the same router and the exact same problem. The only thing I can think of is my cable modem provider is blocking incoming html traffic so that people can't host web sites.

[BubbleLamp]

I would love to know the answer to this because I have the same router and the exact same problem. The only thing I can think of is my cable modem provider is blocking incoming html traffic so that people can't host web sites. That is very common. Try setting your Tivo to listen on something like port 8000 and see if you can reach it. Also need to make sure if you're IP is assigned via DHCP from the cable people that it hasn't changed on ya!

[malfunct]

That is very common. Try setting your Tivo to listen on something like port 8000 and see if you can reach it. Also need to make sure if you're IP is assigned via DHCP from the cable people that it hasn't changed on ya!

My linksys router lets you port forward port 8000 (or anything) on the router to port 80 on my tivo (or whatever other IP connected to the router). That could be useful for getting around an ISP port block without changing your tivo config.

[madhatr1975]

When doing the exact same forwarding to one of my computers that I tossed a web server on it works fine. It is something in the Tivo setting that I just know I am overlooking. Any ideas?

[fixn278]

When doing the exact same forwarding to one of my computers that I tossed a web server on it works fine. It is something in the Tivo setting that I just know I am overlooking. Any ideas?

Everything looks fine. Double-check your route and see if the router is blocking any ports/ip's.

[madhatr1975]

Everything looks fine. Double-check your route and see if the router is blocking any ports/ip's.

The router will allow me to FTP to my xbox from the other side of the router using forwarding and that is using the same IP, ports and everything (unplugged Tivo and plugged in Xbox to same spot). I'm sure it is some setting in the Tivo. When it is plugged in you can't even ping it from the outside world... :(

Also my Tivo always shows that it is "Acquiring Program Guide data from the satellite. Some data available now. Full data in 1-2 days." No matter how many days I wait it never finishes acquiring it.

Not sure if that might be related or not.

[fixn278]

The router will allow me to FTP to my xbox from the other side of the router using forwarding and that is using the same IP, ports and everything (unplugged Tivo and plugged in Xbox to same spot). I'm sure it is some setting in the Tivo. When it is plugged in you can't even ping it from the outside world... :(


That's what makes me think it is a routing issue. can you paste a copy of your routing table here?


Also my Tivo always shows that it is "Acquiring Program Guide data from the satellite. Some data available now. Full data in 1-2 days." No matter how many days I wait it never finishes acquiring it.

Not sure if that might be related or not.

Nah. That's an actual software issue that Tivo fixed in a new software version (although I haven't received the update yet while some have.)

[BubbleLamp]

The router will allow me to FTP to my xbox from the other side of the router using forwarding and that is using the same IP, ports and everything (unplugged Tivo and plugged in Xbox to same spot). I'm sure it is some setting in the Tivo. When it is plugged in you can't even ping it from the outside world... :(


Does your router require a "public" address for the Tivo? IOW, for some routers you designate one host IP as the one to forward to the WAN. On my sonicwall, no other internal nodes can be using the same ports I've reserved for the public node. So if I'm using eMule, I assign something like port 4667 to one internal computer. Don't know if that will help.

BTW, did you ever say if you can ping from the Tivo to an IP on the Internet? You won't get too far if that fails. Good luck.

[madhatr1975]

That's what makes me think it is a routing issue. can you paste a copy of your routing table here?



Nah. That's an actual software issue that Tivo fixed in a new software version (although I haven't received the update yet while some have.)

route_info, afname=inet, options=33
Kernal IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
default 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 32767 0 0 eth0

Hope that helps some