What range are non-standard or 'invisible' local ip addresses?

[jsteph]

Hi,
I had a setting in my dlink router's Firewall rules that I was curious about:

Allow Wan.*-->Lan 192.168.0.165 tcp ports 8156-53727 and udp 10350-25576

so I emailed a Dlink tech who said pointing to the 192.168.0.165 address was their way of 'blocking access' for these ports--that the 'allow' was actually a 'deny' rule because they used this 'special, invisible address'.....(??????!!!!!!!)

But I of course *have* a valid client on that address.
So who's wrong--DLink for that seemingly preposterous statement, or me for using that 'invisible' address?

I finally called Dlink by phone (after arguing to no avail via email with this rep), and the phone tech said "Microsoft pays us to set our firmware to open by Default all UPnp and Gaming Mode ports, and that's what those ports are". (These settings showed up just after I upgraded the firmware).

Can anyone clarify any of this???
Thanks,
--Jim

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=174904

 

[jsteph]

bcastner,
That's good info on ports, but what I'm wondering: is there an 'invisible' ip address range, as Dlink stated, for the 192.168 range?

And have you, or anyone, heard of such thing? Or is Dlink just using support personnel that either don't know of what they speak, or worse--are purposefully misleading me?

It just seems odd that a router would have a 'default' firewall rule that leaves the aforementioned ports open.
--Jim

 

[bcastner]

No there is not.
They are blowing smoke at you.
The firewall rule makes little sense to me, 192.168.0.165 is not even a broadcast address.