Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Anijake

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Oct 19, 2008
360
214
Brooklyn, NY
Hi,

I have this problem, when trying to connect to my iMac via FTP, if I use a wired connection from my iMac to my AEBS and port 21 forwarded to the iMac I can connect from outside locations using my public IP with no problem.

If I switch my iMac to connect to the AEBS via Wifi and change the private IP the AEBS is forwarding to (wired: 192.168.1.100, Wifi: 192.168.1.101) I can not connect when outside using my public IP.

Is there some sort of extra protection added when connecting via wifi? I can connect via FTP when using the local IP (192.168.1.101) when in the house, so this tells me it maybe a AEBS problem with forwarding to a machine connected via wireless. I even set up the AEBS to reserve the IP of the iMac via MAC address so it is static.

Any suggestions?
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.