Router ports?

[Gavin78]

I've noticed in my router settings that I can setup a time and day that certain router IP's can connect. rather than put a timer on my stepsons plug socket I thought it might me better to try this.




I'm wanting to know the bit where it says port setting how do I find these and will it be a standard port like 90 or 116

[jamiefrost]

Not sure about the belikin routers but if you leave the ports blank does it default to blocking all ports?

Assuming you want to block all access to the internet.

JJ

[Gavin78]

yeah he has computer days and sometimes takes the mick with time and sometimes when we are not in. so I want set it up so that it only comes on certain times and days which looking at it you can do.

I would assume that he would connect through his own port as the router has given him a seperate IP address and his own mac address I am just unsure what port his ethernet cable will be connecting through.

I dont think it would lock out all pc's on the network because I assume its IP specific?

[jamiefrost]

Originally Posted by Gavin78

yeah he has computer days and sometimes takes the mick with time and sometimes when we are not in. so I want set it up so that it only comes on certain times and days which looking at it you can do.

I would assume that he would connect through his own port as the router has given him a seperate IP address and his own mac address I am just unsure what port his ethernet cable will be connecting through.

I dont think it would lock out all pc's on the network because I assume its IP specific?

The port settings are there to block specific application ports not the ports on the router, so blocking port 80 would block web access . The ip address is used to specify which PC.

For example

192.168.2.1 ~ 10 80 ~ 100

Would block ports 80 to 100 for all PCs with an IP adderss between 192.168.2.1 to 192.168.2.10

It assumes that the PC always receives the same IP address from the router. As long as this happens it will block internet access for the PC

JJ

[Gavin78]

So if I understand this if I put his IP in and then for example port 80-100 it would only block his ports and not other users ports as there are 2 other computers using the routers ethernet ports?

Not fully up on networking but for example say if he connected through port 80 and I put 80-100 if he changed his ports to say 101 it would then connect to the net again? He wouldn't know how to do this but its just an example of my way of trying to understand?

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re-reading the post I think I know what you mean so as long as his IP stays static then I assume I can use port 80 and it wouldn't affect any of the other pc's connected to the router?

[Matth]

You need to make his IP fixed - the MAC filtering setting will probably allow you to fix the IP, or if similar restrictions can be applied per MAC address do it that way, otherwise manually setting the address can be used to overcome the IP address filtering.

[jamiefrost]

Originally Posted by Gavin78

So if I understand this if I put his IP in and then for example port 80-100 it would only block his ports and not other users ports as there are 2 other computers using the routers ethernet ports?

Not fully up on networking but for example say if he connected through port 80 and I put 80-100 if he changed his ports to say 101 it would then connect to the net again? He wouldn't know how to do this but its just an example of my way of trying to understand?

---------- Post added at 16:23 ---------- Previous post was at 16:21 ----------

re-reading the post I think I know what you mean so as long as his IP stays static then I assume I can use port 80 and it wouldn't affect any of the other pc's connected to the router?

If you leave the ports blank I think it will block all of them. Most routers have a static routing table where ip addresses are assigned based upon the MAC adddress of the PC

As Matth stated above this stops the PC getting a new ip address

JJ

[DocDutch]

if you block ports i would do all and set a password on the router as well just set his pc with a static ip also the blocking on the belkin stops on saturdays normally dont know if that has been fixed or not now but used to be like it when i worked for them