Right, but on home networks with only four or five IP's you may as well leave DHCP off and static the bunch.
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Tom Piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > Scary, it is not clear what this utility does. So who knows what it is > doing to your network and how to undo what it does if necessary. > > You don't have to switch off DHCP to forward ports. You just have to > limit DHCP to handle a range of ports and give the target computer a > static address that is out of the DHCP range. That is simple enough for > me. > > >I saw this in the news this morning and was wondering if anyone has > >tried it and can answer a question. The hardest part of port > >forwarding on a network is having to switch off DHCP, so you can tell > >the router which machine to forward which port for. So my question is: > >If I use this app, can I actually re-enable DHCP? If not, then I > >wonder why they call it 'simple' port forwarding? > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- Make sure you support your local CarbonONset programs! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
