Need a hand if anyone is familiar with Sonic Wall firewalls and doing a port forward to an internal IIS server. Basically what I need to do is forward port 80/443 to an internal server IP address/directory. I’m just not familiar with Sonic Wall and how to do this.
-XT
Which version of the Sonicwall do you have?
I have a TZ-170. To do this I would log into the admin page and select the “Firewall” section on the left. From there I’d choose “Access Rules” and use the wizard they provide. I’d select “Public Access Server”, service “HTTP”, IP address would be the internal IP address and I think the Destination is “LAN”.
It’s pretty straightforward on this model, but YMMV. If you go to mysonicwall.com you can access their support section, including the forums and knowledgebase.
I can get it to do the forward to the server (10.1.1.1) for ports 80/443 but I can’t get it to forward it to the IIS web page (10.1.1.1/web page). I didn’t see a wizard but I managed to puzzle out how to do that much (it was very counter intuitive compared to other firewalls I’ve worked with), though that’s probably because I haven’t worked much with Sonicwall products before.
-XT
Port forwarding doesn’t work that way. You can forward the TCP traffic from one IP/port to another, but this process doesn’t know anything about higher-level protocols like HTTP. What you describe sounds more like a reverse HTTP proxy; I have no idea if your router supports that (probably not) but you can put a proxy on the destination machine that will forward any incoming HTTP request to a particular URL on the IIS service.
Yes, you can forward a port to an internal IP address…I do it all the time, just not on a Sonicwall. Trust me…you can do this (well, you can do it on other firewalls anyway…I assume you can do it on a Sonicwall).
-XT