mila Posted October 11, 2008 Report Share Posted October 11, 2008 HelloI am a bit new to this, so bear with me if I am asking dumb questions.I am having a strange trouble regarding port forwarding that I do not get!The hardware involved is a Vaio laptop running MS Vista and a Netgear wireless router connected to the net via 100Mb/s fibreconnection.When shutting down and rebooting my computer the server IP-adress for the router alternates between .2 and .3 as end number in the IP-adress. This used to mean that everytime I restarted the computer I had to log in to router and change the IP-adress for the port forwarding to make the port forwarded correctly. A bit irritating, but not big problem.But a couple of weeks ago the system crashed, and when I had rebooted and logged in to the Netgear router, the custom service "Utor1" handling the forwarding for Utorrent had disapeared. This means I can't change the IP-any more. But it seems that "Utor1" only disapeared from the list. Not from the router, because if I try to add a new custom service namned "Utor1" it states that this is already in use and cannot be created. But there seem to be no way I cant get to it to manage or delete it.This means that the forwarding of the port is locked to the .3 IP-adress. So now I have to reboot the computer until it uses that IP. Then the forwarding works fine. I do not know if this prolems comes from the computer, the router or Utorrent. All help would be appreciated.I can think of possible solutions, but since I am new to much of this I would like to get some hints on the best way to solve my problem.My 3 possible solutions are:1) Find a way to stop the system from alternating IP-adresses and always use .32) Reinstall Utorrent3) Reinstall (or at least factory reset) the router. Are there any other way? For example a way to find and get the custom service "utor1" back on the list. Or can I use another name than Utor1 to forward a Utorrent port? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 µTorrent might be using UPnP to successfully map the port already when your IP changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mila Posted October 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Unfortunately I do not think it does. About in one time in two after a restart the port doesn't get forwarded properly.But when looking in settings it seem that UPnP is activated. Is that my problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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