Jim:
Heya. "Port-forwarding" is a general phrase for opening a
"hole" in your firewall to allow connections thru. That is, in
general, firewalls block connections which originate from the
"outside" from reaching servers running on the "inside". Most of
the time, that's exactly what you want. But if you're running an
application which expects to receive such connections (eg, a web
server, a VNC server, a Kaboodle server, etc), then you need to
tell your firewall to block all ports...*except* the one specific
to the service you want to receive connections.
As for how to do it...it begs the question: what type of
firewall do you have? That is, what sort of hardware connects your
LAN to the Internet?
-Scott
PS: FWIW, if you setup Kaboodle to use KaboodleProxy, you'll never
need to make any firewall adjustments. You can learn more about
that here: http://www.Kaboodle.org/KaboodleProxy.html
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Jim Bodie wrote:
> The installation instructions for Kaboodle include instructions for
> communicating from behind a firewall. The instructions say that the TCP
> port should be "port-forwarded" to the IP address of the Master Node.
> What is "port-forwarding" and how is it done?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim Bodie
>
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