Is my DMZ not working?

[bwanaaa]

I connected my laptop to the wan port of a link sys BEPVF41 router whose DMZ is enabled. I set the ip of the WAN side of the router to 192.168.1.15 The router lan side is 192.168.0.1. The router DMZ is 192.168.0.10. The laptop is set to 192.168.1.12. No other network connections are enabled. Neither laptop nor router are connected to anything else. I ran several nmap scans against the router but get no open ports. Shouldn't all its ports be open and mapped to the DMZ ip?

 

[Fardringle]

Are you trying to share an internet (maybe mobile?) connection from the laptop to everything else connected to the router? If not, you have things connected wrong. If you want the laptop to be the DMZ device to accept all incoming connections, it needs to be connected to one of the router's LAN ports (or the wireless) and your Internet modem connected to the router's WAN port. Then set up whatever IP address the laptop has to be the DMZ address in the router.

What is is EXACTLY that you are trying to do?

 

[avos]

If the laptop and router aren't connected to anything else what is at 192.168.0.10?

DMZ in a router like that just means it is going to forward any request made to 192.168.1.15 to 192.168.0.10. So say you had a webpage hosted on port 8080 of 192.168.0.10. If you went to http://192.168.1.15:8080 from the laptop on the WAN side you should see the webpage. This is of course if 192.168.0.10 doesn't have its own firewall active.

If nothing is LISTENING on 192.168.0.10 nmap isn't going to return any open ports.