UPDATE 18th April 2010: Netgear have since released a firmware update for the DG834Gv4 which supports NAT loopback. It took them long enough!
Yesterday I made the decision (read: mistake) to update my Netgear DG834G router (hardware v4, firmware v5.01.09) to firmware v5.01.14 – and, as is the way with these things, it brought trouble. After the upgrade I couldn’t reach www.nikrivers.com from the LAN side of the router.
The problem is caused by the way the router handles traffic coming from an internal IP address and destined for the WAN (i.e. external) IP address. In this situation it requires that the router first transfers the traffic from the internal network to the external network, and then immediately passes it back whilst applying any firewall or routing rules that are relevant to incoming external traffic.
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A lot has happened in the several months that have passed since I last had time to write a blog entry.
The fruit of over a year of preparation took place in late December: our wedding. It was the perfect day, and it went with no hiccups, no problems, and no disappointments. It feels like it happened only a few days ago, but it was 13 weeks ago tomorrow. We don’t have the photos back from the photographer yet, but as soon as we do I’ll create an album in the gallery for them; and I’ll also try to collect together any photos that other people took – there are already some on Facebook and other places.
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At the weekend I decided to make a major update to the photo gallery, since a large number of photos weren’t up yet. Although a bit clunky, the gallery software I was using (Gallery2) did the job nicely – and it even has an accompanying desktop app which lets you upload photos en masse.
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