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
ConfigureAdvancedInternal 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
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