Well this is the thing... Because of attaching the box to the router's dhcp i won't know what local address it'll get (I think...) Perhaps the router hands them out the same way all the time.
Every time I tinker so far I get locked out of the router... Networking is fun... Shane Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > 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
