docwebster ([personal profile] docwebster) wrote2005-11-11 10:48 am

On a far more pleasant subject: Attention tech-heads

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?

[identity profile] greyman.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
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.