and also make sure you tune your firewall to allow the addresses and ports on your *.conf file .
yeah its still not working and showing up dead in antminer pool.
i took recent launch of SHA based Cerium coin as example
Cerium.conf rpcallowip=192.168.1.*
daemon=1
server=1
listen=1
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=1234
rpcport=45454
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
Antminer S1 Pool = 192.168.1.102:45454
pool worker = user
pool passweod= 1234
Result:stratum+tcp://192.168.1.102:45454
user
Dead
after beeping for a while antminer S1 goes to the backup pool in configuration. both miner and computer are connected with the same router and firwall didnt alarm any conection.