As I'm not familiar with the interface of a Netopia router, I can't be of much help. My experience has been with Linksys routers and I assumed that all of these Cable/DSL routers had pretty much the same features. Does anyone out there who uses Netopia routers know if/where those routers would allow/set up port forwarding?
> Thanks, Dan and Lee for your help. ?I got to a stuck place, however. ? > > Dan, you said: > > Once you manually set your computer's local IP, go back to the router > interface and its "port forwarding" screen. This will allow you to > open > specific ports to the local computer to which you manually assigned an > IP number. It should be pretty obvious how to do this. If you used > 192.168.0.2 for the computer, for that IP number you would forward > port > 548 for personal file sharing and the 20-21 range for FTP. > > While accessing the Netopia interface, I went to > Configure>Advanced>Internal Servers (set ports). ?This was the only > choice that mentioned or dealt with ports. ?There, there was only one > dialogue box titled Internal Servers. ?It said, ?Enter a value from 1 > to 65534 to disable the server?, then there were two input boxes, > ??Web (HTTP) Server Port? . . . And a default 80 in the box (which I > presume is for the web!), and ?Telnet Server Port? . . . And a default > 23 in the box (which I presume is the one I need to fool with). ?I > didn?t see a way to assign a port to a particular LAN address, > however. ?I knew this was not something I wanted to mess with, so I > quit. > > Am I in too deep? ?I haven?t tried www.dyndns.org yet, but that seems > the way to go. > > Thanks, > Robert > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
