[En-Nut-Discussion] FTP access behind router

[Ulrich Hertlein]

Peter Sodermanns wrote:
> But behind a NAT router this cannot work. I can connect via HTTP since
> the router has a fix IP-address but the device knows nothing about that.
> 
> Even worse, I tried to connect to that given IP-address with filezilla
> and reached a server which was not my device. So even if I would store
> that external IP-Address in my device, I wouldn't reach it.
> 
> Does anyone know a solution?

There is no clean solution except to activate port forwarding on your
NAT router for ports 80 (http) and/or 21 (ftp) so that requests to those
ports are forwarded to your internal/private IP address.

/ulrich

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