Port forwarding on Safaricom Home Fibre

[smallrabbit]

Hi,
Anyone here forwarding ports to devices in your network on Safaricom home fibre? If so, have you had any issues recently? I’ve forwarded some ports (80 etc) and it’s been fine for ages, come Wednesday this week, suddenly they’re no longer accessible. Talked to customer care, they essentially told me to jipanga as they can’t see any issue with the connection, and that ports are not blocked. I’ve tried everything, reset router to factory settings etc, no dice. Might have to go back to zuku at this rate.

[mpendakazi]

@smallrabbit

Hi,
Anyone here forwarding ports to devices in your network on Safaricom home fibre? If so, have you had any issues recently? I’ve forwarded some ports (80 etc) and it’s been fine for ages, come Wednesday this week, suddenly they’re no longer accessible. Talked to customer care, they essentially told me to jipanga as they can’t see any issue with the connection, and that ports are not blocked. I’ve tried everything, reset router to factory settings etc, no dice. Might have to go back to zuku at this rate.

Magwiji walisema you buy a different/secondary router, and not use safaricom’s router directly on your devices…

[smallrabbit]

I can do this once I resolve my problem, for now I just want to know if anyone else is forwarding ports maybe for a cctv camera, web server etc and they’re on Safaricom home fibre and it’s working ok.

[hastri]

I may have clarified inadequately or you not gotten it. I compared the Internet crawlers to Shodan look in that web crawlers slither the WWW and record them. Likewise Shodan is a web crawler that slithers and files all gadgets associated with the internet(aka web confronting) including their open ports.

[mezawembe]

I have a TPlink between my gadgets and a Safaricon router and port forwarding still wont work.

Did anyone ever figure out a workout?

[johnju]

@mpendakazi

…not use safaricom’s router directly on your devices…

it this possible?i tried asking them they just said i have no option but to use safaricoms router

[polarise]

Hello,
Anyone succeeded in getting external access to a home device? I’ve been able to set up port forwarding on my fiber router as well as configure noip to update my public IP when it changes. I’ve also spoken to customer care (though the lady laughed so hard at my technical question because I presume it was atypical) who say that they do not block anything. This is borne out by the router settings: nothing seems to be blocked. I’m no expert but I know how to do a google Google search.
Some help would be useful.
Pol

[zimede]

Port-forwading on a customer-edge endpoint? PF only works when you have access using a dedicated public IP. AFAIK, Safaricom home fiber uses shared public IPs for clients, get a dedicated fiber connection @polarise.

[Japheth]

@polarise

I’ve been able to set up port forwarding on my fiber router as well as configure noip to update my public IP when it changes.

So you successfully setup port forwarding?