On a far more pleasant subject: Attention tech-heads

[docwebster]

Specifically, attention those who are familiar with Linksys wireless routers.

What I need to know is about port forwarding I guess is what it's called. I would like to point port 1221 (for the SAM software that takes the requests when my show is live) to another machine on the wireless network instead of this one I'm on at the moment.

How do I do this?

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[greyman.livejournal.com]

Use your web browser to log in to your router:

http://192.168.1.1
user: admin
password: admin
(or whatever you've changed it to)

go to Network Settings
Forwarding

and fill in for port 1221 and the IP address of the machine you want to get the forwarding.

I'm a bit confused by your statement "instead of this one I'm on at the moment". Does your software work on that machine?

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Oh, it does. It's just that the one in the living room is also capable and has one hundred and twenty gig of tunes to draw from.

[greyman.livejournal.com]

The reason I asked is because either 1) you already have port forwarding set up for SAM, just going to the wrong machine, and so you just need to change the IP address, or 2) you have the machine its on now in your "DMZ". I've never worked with DMZed machines so can't be of much help there.

I grasped that you had a good reason to run the software on a different machine *grin*.

You don't have to set a static IP for the machines. Even a dynamic IP will usually remain constant until the DHCP server is rebooted or a given client stays off line for a long period of time. I have port forwarding and DHCP in my NetGear router, I just have to change the destination IPs for the port forwarding every now and then.