on 15/10/03 12:49 pm, Adrian Simmons at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alan Gentle wrote: > >> Presumably my ADSL modem, a Netgear DM602, >> includes a firewall as well > All routers, and it is (afaik) a router as well as a modem have some > firewall like features. Most notably network address translation (NAT). > >> the site >> needs firewalls to be turned off before access can be gained. > It probably doesn't like the NAT. > My RT314 router has an option to forward all ports to a specific LAN IP, > I need to do this to host Myth II games online :). > Look around in your documentation/admin interface and see if there is > anything about port forwarding, you need to point all traffic to your mac. My DM602 is a seemingly simpler model as there are no options for setting up port forwarding so I'll probably have to live with it or revert to a dialup connection to access that particular site - which seems a somewhat backward step! Thanks anyway...
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