Then you have to go into the port forwarding settings and forward port 21 to that address. THEN, go into the netgear control panel, find the Reserve IP Address settings or similar, and have the netgear memorize the mac address of Freenas and set the IP address for it. If it's from the great beyond, my solution is to go into the NIC control panel on Freenas and set the ip address to DHCP, meaning it will ask the router for its IP address. If it is, then you're having more complicated problems. Within the local network, you shouldn't have any problems, the Netgear SHOULDN'T block internal traffic. Which connection are you having trouble with? My problem was connecting to Freenas from the great beyond. Connecting from within the local network, and connecting from the internet, the cloud, the great beyond. I just thought others might like to know my findings. Technically the Freenas Nic is set for dynamic IP address however,The freenas mac address is remembered on the Netgear to always receive the same address via DHCP. So my solution is to actually fake static-IP. My hypothesis, is that since the Netgear didn't hand out the address via DHCP, it failed to realize that the freenas was connected (even though the connected devices list showed it), and did not forward the port to a computer that was not "connected." I changed the Freenas Nic back to DHCP, and suddenly port forwarding worked. I had reserved that IP address on the Router, and forwarded port 21 and everything to that address, but the ports still were not getting forwarded. It took me a long while to figure out that it was the static IP address that was causing it. FTP over the LAN worked fine-but what's the point of that? A short while later, I found that I could not access the FTP service from outside the LAN. Someone recommended that I set the Freenas NIC for a static IP. I setup the port forwarding on the NEtgear, and it worked for a while. I have a Netgear router connected to Comcast Cable. This problem may not be SPECIFIC to Freenas, and really it's not even Freenas' problem. I'm so excited that I finally fixed this (though it may seem minor) I had to share this in case anyone else has the same problem.
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