That doesn't sound right to me; port forwarding is internal to your network so why would it matter what the external IP address is? You do of course need to have a way of knowing what the external IP address is; I used to use dyndns until they went from free, to charging a bit, to charging quite a lot. I believe there are similar services that are free or cheap.the ISP says I need a static ip to get port forwarding to work and I only found that out today.
Fair enough; I hadn't realised you were on CGNAT so now the suggestion from the ISP makes more sense and I agree you need a static IP address (but I wonder if that is to make your box accessible to incoming requests from the rest of the Internet rather than to make port forwarding per se work).I use ddns with my old ISP Martin and it worked a treat. But I gather my new 4g-based ISP uses CGNAT whereby multiple customers share the same ip address. They say I need a static ip to get around this and make port-forwarding work. :-(
You are completely barking mad if you're going to expose a web server on your Humax to the whole internet. Really, don't do it. On whatever port.For some crazy reason my new ISP's router doesn't allow me to set up port forwarding for port 80 so my question is " Can I change the http port number in the custom firmware to say 8080 and if I can how do I do it?".
Yes, go to the web interface Diagnostics, then File Editor. In the list of Commonly edited files at the bottom, click on /mod/etc/lighttpd/extra.confCan I change the http port number in the custom firmware to say 8080 and if I can how do I do it?
#####################################################################
# Example - listen on additional port (81)
#$SERVER["socket"] == ":81" {}
######################################################################
# Example - listen on additional SSL port (4443)
#$SERVER["socket"] == ":4443" { include "ssl-params.conf" }
Arghh, no, sorry.Am I right in assuming that you are referring to the FOXSAT-HDR version?
Being careful to use an editor configurable for Linux line ends of course (Windows Notepad will cock it up).or access it over windows file sharing
nslookup rs.hpkg.tv
89.248.55.75 rs.hpkg.tv
What are the Values under Internet Settings (at least that is what some other Humax boxes call it): IP Address, Gateway and DNS?Error: 6 - Couldn't resolve host name
Any suggestions on how to debug it?