On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 12:56 PM, Mark Talluto wrote:
> What I think I need to do is get a better understanding on how the > settings work for ipnetrouter. I am the guy who set it up. I > just do not have much knowledge on how it all works. I have much > to learn. LOL! I often see documentation, dialog boxes or other communication that says "See your System Administrator." But I am the system administrator! Some routers are hard to set up. Fortunately, IPNetRouter should be easier than most. I have never used it, but I'm aware of what it can do. It uses a different NAT terminology than I use. To make a connection from the outside to a computer on the LAN, use "inbound port mapping." You should also check your filters in the IP Filter to make sure that all kinds of TCP packets can go both directions on the ports and IP addresses you need. With "inbound port mapping" the computer on the outside will then try to connect to the router (not the inside computer) on the port that will forward to the port used on the inside computer. > Now putting a server outside the firewall is probably going to be > very important to insure that all users can communicate no matter > what their situation is. Note that the above method actually does put the service on the Internet. The service being in the trivial case one of the chat clients. There are cases in which some strict firewalls will still block. Some won't allow connections to strange ports. Some have software local to each computer that will only allow certain applications to go through the firewall. Dar Scott _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
