Hi Dan,
I can't answer the port questions here, but I have a suggestion for a
source you can check: The Take Control books and specifically the
newly revised "Take Control of your 802.11N Network". Here's a
description pasted from the web page summary:
<begin quote>
Make your 802.11n-based AirPort network fast, reliable, and secure!
Find real-world advice from Wi-Fi wizard Glenn Fleishman on setting up
the 802.11n models of Apple's AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and
Time Capsule. You'll get help with all the picky networking details,
such as how to choose between the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, use older
Wi-Fi gear without hurting performance, set up complex Internet
addressing, share USB disks and printers, network with and configure
an Apple TV, and connect from Mac and Windows clients. You'll also
learn how to create a multi-base-station network to extend range, and
how to stream music across your network with an AirPort Express.
<end quote>
I read the author's older book on "Take Control of Your AirPort
Network" when I first got my AirPort Express for wireless use --
before I ever had a home broadband connection -- and it was very
good, especially about the details of other specific network products
and evaluating the trade-off pluses and minuses of using the Apple
wireless products vs. others for particular uses.
It also turns out that the author just announced the revision of the
802.11N book at his Wi-Fi Networking News site yesterday, with a
Coupon code for a $5 off discount:
The coupon code CPN007281031WNN can be used at checkout to pay just
$10 for this $15 instantly available electronic book.
Here's the link to the book at the Take Control web page. As with all
their PDF downloadable books, there's a link to a Free sample of the
book that you can download and use to evaluate whether this is likely
to be of interest. When minor version updates become available, they
are available as free updates to your earlier purchase. The web page
also has very detailed information on the book and its contents:
http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx/TakeControl/airport-n.html
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 1, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Dan Eickmeier wrote:
Hi all, I now have an apple time capsule, and I want to open some
ports for use of things such as echo mac, that being a mac version
of EchoLink, and some other things. And I've looked at the port
mapping tab under advanced in the airport utility, and I'm not
really sure how to go about specifying what ports I want to be
opened. there are areas for private and public UDP and TCP ports.
Not sure what to do here. In any other router, such as the linksys
rotuer htat I had before, it was a matter of entering the port
range that I wanted to be forwarded, and specifying the ip address
on the router for the machine I wanted those ports to be open to.
But looks like it's different with these routers.
