Re: Cisco 871 and Hotmail, Windows Live, Xbox360

AJ Schroeder <ajschroeder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I have a Cisco 871 router that I am attempted to use replace my aging
Netgear router. Things are working, er, just ok.

I utilize hotmail, my fiance uses live messenger, and I have an Xbox360.
Whenever I put the 871 in as my router I can no longer sign into
hotmail, live messenger, or Xbox live!

Web browsing, google talk, FTP, and other internet traffic work fine. I
just am not able to get the Microsoft apps to work. They all time-out
for some reason. If I put the old Netgear in, everything works normally.

I thought it was something that I did, so I did a 'write erase' and then
tried to config it again.

No, not really anything you did.

The Netgear supports UPnP, which is basicly a method for any program
on any computers on the inside to open up holes on the
firewall. Microsoft whole-heartedly supports UPnP.

Some companies are fundementally opposed to letting client machines
open up holes willy-nilly with zero admin control over it. Cisco is
one of them, and they will never support UPnP.

Their philosophy is that if you want to open up holes, you need to
specificly open up the holes you need to match the protocols you want
going through. Thus you know what is open rather than random stuff
opening up and going through.

I'm afraid, you'll have to learn to find out what you need open, and
to open up and do port forwarding for each of the protocols you want
to use.

.

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