I think you could be helped out by a couple network tutorials (or simply buy a good book about setting up a network). Reading the manual of your router will help you a lot too...
This is all about IP addresses and Port numbers. Your router receives the IP address from your Internet Service Provider (ISP), which is a unique address on the internet. Everything behind the router (your inTRAnet, or LAN), is using a private IP range, in your case 10.0.0.0. These addresses, from your LAN, won't be routed over the internet because you're using addresses that plenty people have in use and therefore aren't unique anymore. Anyway, what you have to do to reach your computer, is to find out which applications on your host you want to use, eg webserver, ssh-server, samba, print-server, ... Then you have to look up which PORTS these applications, or services, are running on. For example, webservers usually run on port 80, proxy on 8080, ssh on port 22, etc, etc Then on your router, you go to your Admin page (which I'm sure you'll know by heart now ;->) and configure the port-forwarding to your host.. In other words, when you want to reach your webserver on port 80, you connect with your browser to your router. The router will see the incoming traffic on port 80 and knows it has to forward that to your host on 10.0.0.x. This is just a simple explanation, and depending on the complexity of your modem you will have no problem setting this port-forwarding up, or you'll have great difficulties. However, if you're messing around with network settings, it's always a good idea to have some basic knowledge of networking, and keep the manual of your router at hand. I strongly advise you to download some ebooks (O'Reilley is always good for experts, networking for dummies might be good for beginners), tutorials, go to a book shop and get you some books, ... Success with it :) Jan On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:15:07 +0530, Amala Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys, > > This is not particular to Mandrake Linux. But thought could use this to > get answer. > > I have a router installed and configured to 10.0.0.2. But in usual > modems without > routers, the local hosts are directly accessible through by typing the > IP address from > outside machines. But since the router stays in between local host and > the outer > world, I cannot make it viewed from outside. Every time I type in the IP > address, > I get the router admin page. > > How can I be able to set this so that my localhost is accessible through > outside. > > Thanks in advance > Amala Singh > > > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > ____________________________________________________ > > >
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