• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
programming forums Java Mobile Certification Databases Caching Books Engineering Micro Controllers OS Languages Paradigms IDEs Build Tools Frameworks Application Servers Open Source This Site Careers Other Pie Elite all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
Marshals:
  • Campbell Ritchie
  • Tim Cooke
  • paul wheaton
  • Jeanne Boyarsky
  • Ron McLeod
Sheriffs:
  • Paul Clapham
  • Liutauras Vilda
  • Devaka Cooray
Saloon Keepers:
  • Tim Holloway
  • Roland Mueller
Bartenders:

How to Bypass router

 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 66
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Hi,

I have an application that is deployed on Tomcat on my local machine. My local machine is sitting behind a broadband router. I think this is disabling me from accessing my application/tomcat from outside the network. Is there a possible way for me to configure the network (router or local machine) to enable direct access from the internet to my local machine/ tomcat?

I am not very experienced in networking, so detailed instructions will be very appreciated.

Many Thanks
 
author
Posts: 23958
142
jQuery Eclipse IDE Firefox Browser VI Editor C++ Chrome Java Linux Windows
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Originally posted by M Jay:
Hi,

I have an application that is deployed on Tomcat on my local machine. My local machine is sitting behind a broadband router. I think this is disabling me from accessing my application/tomcat from outside the network. Is there a possible way for me to configure the network (router or local machine) to enable direct access from the internet to my local machine/ tomcat?

I am not very experienced in networking, so detailed instructions will be very appreciated.

Many Thanks



Unfortunately, "detailed instructions" are specific to the exact router that you have, so you need to google the instructions for your router. Actually, regardless, the instructions may be considered complex for someone who has never did networking before. The best I can do is explain it, and hope that you have enough to google with... sorry...

Basically, you need to forward the ports from your router to your machine. From the outside, no one can see your network. All they see is one machine -- your router.

Let's say, you have Tomcat configured for port 80, sitting on your machine with a particular IP address. This address is an internal address -- other computers connected to the router (in your network) can ping your address -- but no outside computer can see your internal network.

So you need to do 2 things...

First, you need to fix the IP address of your computer on the internal network. You can do it via logging into the router's DHCP configuration menu and force a fixed address based on your machines' MAC address. Another option is to not use DHCP. Instead, configure the IP address on your machine to an address that is not used by DHCP -- but using the same subnet.

Second, you need to forward the port. Let's say Tomcat is configured for port 80. You can do it via logging into the router's menus to forward port 80, for TCP, to the IP address that you assigned in part one. If you are using other ports that need to be reached from the outside, you need to forward them too.


From the outside, when the client program connects to port 80, on your router, it will be forwarded to port 80, on your computer. Basically, the outside computer will think that the router is your computer -- and Tomcat is running on it... neat huh?


And of course... other options are available (like uPnP) ... blah blah blah... security concerns... blah blah blah.

Henry
 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 41
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
There are detailed instructions for many routers at http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm how to forward a port.
 
If we don't do the shopping, we won't have anything for dinner. And I've invited this tiny ad:
New web page for Paul's Rocket Mass Heaters movies
https://coderanch.com/t/785239/web-page-Paul-Rocket-Mass
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic