Airport Port Mapping Limit?

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Airport Port Mapping Limit?

Can anyone verify that Port Mapping in Airport Admin Utility only allows 20 forwarded ports?

If I have 20 ports forwarded, my "add" button goes grey, and so does my "import" button.

I've tried clearing out all the forwarded ports and creating my own import list, and it only grabs the first 20 ports. This blows...

If not, let me know if I need to restart my Airport Extreme...

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Most routers have a similar l

Most routers have a similar limit. I know my Linksys can only forward 20 ports.

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whoa

I'd never have believed it...

is there a workaround? Is this the reason for using a dedicated box for network routing?

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Re: whoa

is there a workaround?

Nope.

Is this the reason for using a dedicated box for network routing?

Yep.

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Time for me to ask the stupid question...

Okay, so it's time for me to ask the stupid question:

Why would the average person need to forward twenty or more ports?

On my router I have two ports open for outside world access: 23 & 80. Port 23 is forwarded to a Quadra 700 running NetBSD and port 80 is forwarded to a PM9500 that I'm using as a webserver.

Let me see if I can figure this out:

A hotline server would require two ports.
A webserver would require one port. (Possibly more, but usually one)
An FTP server requires one port, I believe.
Online games could require a port or two.
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Telnet requires just a single port.

Okay, so what could you possibly be doing that would require 20 or more ports to be forwarded?

EDIT: Okay, I just checked my router's forwarding abilities, and it's capable of the following:

Concurrently forward on 15 specific ports.
Concurrently forward on 10 specific port ranges.

So, I can forward a seemingly unlimited number of ports with my router. Assuming that a large number of ports within a given range should be forwarded to a specific IP address, I'm sitting pretty. I can forward 10 port ranges of any size, and 15 single ports concurrently. Not too shabby at all.

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pretty straight forward

lessie... I got 3 OS X boxen, 2 are headless, wanna be able to ssh to any of them... a netbsd box, gotta ssh to that, an XP box (necessity) so... I don't even wanna touch that, gotta have 3389 and 6100 open for that, one of the OS X boxes is an anonymous ftp server, so there's 2 more ports... ah... screw it... heres my export file:
20---------10.0.1.201---------20
21---------10.0.1.201---------21
22---------10.0.1.201---------22
26---------10.0.1.7------------22
28---------10.0.1.2------------22
30---------10.0.1.5-----------22
32---------10.0.1.10----------22
80---------10.0.1.201---------80
311---------10.0.1.201--------311
554---------10.0.1.7----------554
625---------10.0.1.201--------625
687---------10.0.1.201--------687
1989---------10.0.1.201-------80
3283---------10.0.1.2---------3283
3389---------10.0.1.3---------3389
5900---------10.0.1.2---------5900
5988---------10.0.1.2---------5988
6100---------10.0.1.3---------6100
8008---------10.0.1.5---------80
8080---------10.0.1.201-------80

I've got some ports mapped there I don't use much... so at some point I need to do a little house cleaning...

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Doesn't Airport offer port ranges?

Hmm, interesting. However, doesn't Apple's Airport allow you to forward port ranges?

For example:

I see from your exports file that you're forwarding ports 20,21, and 22 to IP address 10.0.1.201. If you were able to forward a port range, you could forward port 20 to 22 to 10.0.1.201 and save yourself two port forwarding slots.

I notice that you have some redundancy there too. Especially with port 80 on IP 10.0.1.201.

Edit:

Errata
I state above that forwarding a port range would save you two forwarding slots, in actual fact, it will save you three.

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