I am having trouble configuring a LaCie Ethernet disk mini. From a w2k PC, the LaCie backup seems to work fine. From my XP PC, the backup started and transfered several MB, but ultimately hangs. The problem seems to be that the LaCie uses DPNP & Port Forwarding (21,22, 80 & 443). My router is from Verizon FIOS (Actiontek MI424-WR) and shows port forwarding for the LaCie's IP address correctly. (The actual text is "Port80 - TCP any -> 80" and Status is Active). However, the LaCie Port Forwarding Test consistently reports port 80 is blocked from BOTH PCs.
In the router logs there are at least three types of persistent errors:
1). Firewall Setup Configuration change WBM user Unknown (0.0.0.0) has changed security settings [repeated 1627 times, last time on Dec 25 19:51:31 2008]
2). Firewall Setup Configuration change WBM user Unknown (0.0.0.0) has changed security settings [repeated 5579 times, last time on Dec 25 12:21:27 2008]
3). Blocked - NAT out failed First packet in connection is not a SYN packet: TCP 192.168.1.4:443->64.26.187.144:57337 on clink0
The striking thing is the number of times that some router setting has been changed (from somewhere!), and then apparently changed back by the router in both 1) & 2). Its not clear to me if this is a change from inside or outside my network, but I suspect its the LaCie trying to keep itself visible.
3) is interesting since 192.168.1.4 is my LaCie, and port 443 is the secure web access port. I suspect that this is the message that causes the XP backup to fail.
What makes port 80 show up as blocked? Since the router seems to think its open, what am I missing? Is 443 really open?
Additional odd behavior: since adding the LaCie to the network, dns look up in particular, and web access in particular seems to get slower and slower over a period of 1-2 weeks. Cycling power on the router seems to clear this up.
(I don't see anything odd in my XP's Norton 360 to make me think it is blocking the backup).
TIA.