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 Member 222 Level 36.56 Mar 2006 
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Forwarding a port to an IP address basically means that whenever a packet that is looking for that port number hits your router, the router forwards that packet to the computer at the IP address that you specified.
And yes zergrinch, you are partially right about static IPs being obtainable from the ISP, in that if you want your EXTERNAL IP address, i.e. the one that your router has, to be static, then yes, the ISP must provide that. HOWEVER, in this guy's situation, where he is only working inside of his own network, he can hand out statics all day, because they will recieve IP addresses that are only routable inside his own network. As long as he gives his workstations 192.168.x.x {some routers default to 192.168.2.x, some to 192.168.1.x}, he will be alright giving them static addresses. Now if he were to take that computer {or ps3 or whatever} and connect them directly to the internet, with no router in between, he would have to go in and clear the static IP that was set, so that it could pull a new, routable address from the ISP. Double Post: Also, port 80 is http, why would you want to forward that? Jam it back in, in the dark. I didn't say I wouldn't go fishin' with the man.
All I'm sayin' is, if he comes near me, I'll put him in the wall.
Last edited by russ; Dec 26, 2006 at 09:04 AM.
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