Hi guys,
Ran into a problem with port forwarding recently - I cannot forward a port that is apparently being used by my router. Maybe someone here can help?
Over the weekend I attempted to forward some ports on my Netgear WNR1000v2 so that I could play Guild Wars 2. That didn't appear to work, so I tried triggering the ports instead. That didn't work either, so I disabled those rules and ticked off the checkbox Disable Port Triggering.
Shortly after the port triggering attempt, I noticed that when attempting to connect to my router the dialog box would say "The server 192.168.1.1
:80 requires a username and password."
Additionally, I downloaded PCWinTech's Simple Port Tester and noticed that port forwarding apparently works now (or it always did and I never noticed) for all ports except port 80 TCP. The Status column says "Port in use." and Open? column says "Failed".
I'm not certain that port triggering was what caused this problem, but the two events happened near simultaneously and seem connected. If you think something else may have caused this, feel free to move the thread elsewhere.
Anyway, I can't find any options on the router settings for disabling this utilization of port 80 and my normally strong Google-fu turned up no results nor help for resolving the issue. Shane mentioned this issue in a previous thread (
http://forums.pcwintech.com/index.php?topic=2055.0) but the other user ended up having a different problem. Does anyone know what may be wrong with my router or how to fix it? Thanks!