Most of the retail (linksys, d-stink, smc, etc.) routers out there do allow port forwarding as well as DHC, firewall, NAT, etc. You could set it up to pass port 80 requests to the machine (192.186.2.?) that you are hosting your site on. This is commonly referred to a DMZ as well. Important thing to remember is to lock down that machine, especially if it is on your LAN, behind the firewall. Lock it up tight so no one can use that machine to attack your LAN.
-----Original Message----- From: Shane Clements [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: August 19, 2002 12:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (clug-talk) Me loves cable... >>If you want to manually setup each >>computers ip address (why?) you can still use dhcp, but setup your >>dhcp.conf file to only request dns from the dhcp server. >>Just curious why you aren't using DHCP though? Well the short answer is 'cause I'm not sure what I'm doing...:^) Actually (perhaps I'm not going about it the right way...) I want to eventually run a DNS server and Apache to host my own site. I have a site hosted by l33t.ca. But to learn more I thought I'd try it my own self. What I thought might work was to have the SMC box port forward requests from 'mysite.com' to one of the boxes behind it. I thought that for stuff like that (ftp, http, openshell etc...) there would have to be fixed addresses at each machine. Perhaps no... Shane
