If I've been reading this thread correctly, it seems most likely that the problem is with the router on the work side of the equation, not with his own router.
If that's the case, he would have to: 1. Give his work machine a static IP in the 198.162.xxx.xxx range. 2. Have the tech guy at work forward requests for port 548 to that machine's IP address. >Thanks again, Lee and Jerry. > >I will have to find out how the router was set up; I guess that means I will >have to get BellSouth to come out and do it. I certainly have no access to >the router's set up program. Am I missing something? > >Robert > >On 12/11/03 5:15 PM, "macgroup-digest" ><owner-macgroup-digest at erdos.math.louisville.edu> wrote: > >> The software that is used to set up your router will most likely have >> an advanced option (I wish I could be more specific, but each router >> manufacturer handles this slightly differently, some use web-browser >> based set-ups and some use stand-alone programs, etc.) that allows you >> to designate how it handles types of request that come in --- just as >> Lee has outlined. > > > >| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >| be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >| This list's page is ><http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
