NETSH port forwarding from local port to local port not working

netsh, portforwarding, windows-networking

Solution

I managed to get it to work by issuing:

netsh interface ipv6 install

Also, for my purpose, it is not required to set listenaddress and better to set connectaddress=127.0.0.1, e.g.

netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=8001 connectport=80 connectaddress=127.0.0.1

Problem

I'm trying to use NETSH PORTPROXY command to forward packets sent to my XP PC (IP `192.168.0.10`) on port 8001 to port 80 (I've a XAMPP Apache server listening to port 80). I issued the following: ``` netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=8001 listenaddress=192.168.0.10 connectport=80 connectaddress=192.168.0.10 ``` Show all confirms that everything is configured correctly: ``` netsh interface portproxy show all Listen on IPv4: Connect to IPv4: Address Port Address Port --------------- ---------- --------------- ---------- 192.168.0.10 8001 192.168.0.10 80 ``` However, I'm not able to access apache website from `http://localhost:8001`. I'm able to access through the direct port at `http://localhost` as shown below. Additionally, I've also tried the following: 1. Access the Apache website from a remote PC using the link: `http://192.168.0.10:8001`. Firewall turned off. 2. Changing listenaddress and connectaddress to `127.0.0.1`. Without further information, I can't find a way to resolve the problem. Is there a way to debug NETSH PORTPROXY? Note: By the way, if you're wondering why I am doing this, I actually want to map remote MySQL client connections from a custom port to the default MySQL Server port 3306.

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