I don't have linksys, but on my netgear there's a setting to reserve an IP address for a mac address so that every time it renews its lease it gets the same IP address. That why you can manage all the other dynamic settings and still keep the same static address. It just has to be an address outside your DHCP lease range.
Mel L. Chandler, A+, Network+, MCNE, MCDBA, MCSE+I, CCNA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Analyst Information Services PMI Delta Dental (562) 467-6627 "Life's a reach and then you jibe." -----Original Message----- From: Scott C. Best [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re; can't get vnc to work, with lynksys router Terry: I think Jae's advice is closest to what you want: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the same router you are using. You must turn DHCP off and use > "Port forwarding" not "Port triggering". Setup static addresses on your > network and forward ports 5900-6000 to the WIN98 machine running VNC. > This should work. In my experience with LinkSys routers, you can get port forwarding to work fine even if you keep DHCP turned on. The PC's which get their IP addresses from the LinkSys box will get the same IP address repeatedly. That is, when the DHCP lease expires, the PC will "renew" it with the DHCP server (ie, the LinkSys) and keep the same address. Giving your servers a static IP is more reliable, of course, but in Win98 it means at least one restart and it means getting all of the DNS and Gateway info right. So I'd keep DHCP turned on for now, until you get the port-forwarding working. To test your setup...start a browser on your Win98 VNC server, and connect to "www.GoToMyVNC.com". It will run a test to see if it can detect the VNC server -- if it can connect, then the LinkSys is setup correctly. Hope this helps! -Scott _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
