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Port Forwarding

WuckFarcraftWuckFarcraft Registered User regular
edited January 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I have a NetGear wirless router and I am having trouble doing some port forwards.

At my house at home, I can port forward through linksys easily beacuse everything is hardwired, however I seem to be having a problem doing this because it is wirless.

I am also using a mac.

Any ideas?

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  • Xenocide GeekXenocide Geek Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    How versed in port forwarding are you?

    I mean, are you 'vaguely' familiar with the concept, or do you know your local IP address and are able to assign the appropriate ports to be forwarded to that IP address and all that jazz?

    Also, are you JUST using this NetGear router, or is there some other sort of wireless device, like an AirPort?

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  • DaySleeperDaySleeper regular
    edited January 2007
    http://portforward.com/routers.htm

    This site will likely be able to help you out.

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  • WuckFarcraftWuckFarcraft Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I am reading that guide. I know how to pretty much do everything except the concept of "static Ip" is new. I have to set that up apparently.

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  • WuckFarcraftWuckFarcraft Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Basically stuck on this step.

    http://portforward.com/networking/static-Mac10.4.htm

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  • IrohIroh Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    You don't really have to set up a static IP address. It works just as well if you follow the same steps for each IP in the range that get assigned to you when it's dynamic. On my Linksys router I have two identical forwarding entries, but one is for a .100 IP, and one for a .101.

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  • WuckFarcraftWuckFarcraft Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    How do I know what range to put them in? Like just fill in

    192.168.1.1
    192.168.1.2
    192.168.1.3.....

    To like 10?

    That would work?

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  • IrohIroh Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Do a Start » Run » cmd, then once the DOS prompt is open, type ipconfig and look for the 192.168.1.something IP address. You have the right idea, just need to get this done to know where the range is; mine is .100 and .101 for instance.

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  • WuckFarcraftWuckFarcraft Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I have a mac.

    That site was helpfull but the last step was to call someone and find out what your DMZ was so....

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  • varlandvarland Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    WuckFarcraft wrote:
    I have a mac.

    That site was helpfull but the last step was to call someone and find out what your DMZ was so....
    A DMZ is a de-militarised zone, it opens up one computer (one ip) up completely to internet through the router.
    As in, not port blocking or anything of that nature. The router gives your computer an ip (the one that's set as DMZ if you did it right) and whammo. Virus and spyware free-for-all. ;)

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