
Originally Posted by
Mr JP Fugley
Forwarding is done on the LAN side of the router, not the WAN side.
Your router has an ip when connected to the interweb (the wan) and an ip on the local area network (LAN).
All PC's on a local network have similar ip addresses. Mine are 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2 and upwards from that. The lowest number being the router itself.
The DMC table gives you a list of which local ips are allocated to which computer. So what you do is read the table, get the ip for the appropriate machine and forward the port to that machine.
For a Linksys router you can use internet exploder to set this up, by typing 192.168.1.1 into the address bar. Then using the built in firmware(I think) to change the settings.
Sorry if that's a bit rambling.
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