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Can I port forward to more than one machine
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: London, UK
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Hi,
Query about my netgear router. I would like to be able to forward a particular port to more than one machine.
For example, I would like the option to use my isight camera on either of our powerbooks. However, I have to forward certain ports through my router/firewall. The router only seems to give you the option to forward to just a single ip address. The camera wouldn't be used on more than one machine at a time, but it would be nice not to have to have to reconfigure the router each time.
Thanks,
Justin.
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
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You can't forward the same port to two computers at once for obvious reasons. (How would you know which computer to connect to?)
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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Thanks, just checking.
Cheers,
J.
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Join Date: May 2002
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Originally posted by Freeflyer:
Hi,
Query about my netgear router. I would like to be able to forward a particular port to more than one machine.
For example, I would like the option to use my isight camera on either of our powerbooks. However, I have to forward certain ports through my router/firewall. The router only seems to give you the option to forward to just a single ip address. The camera wouldn't be used on more than one machine at a time, but it would be nice not to have to have to reconfigure the router each time.
Thanks,
Justin.
No, but you can forward 2 different external ports to the same port on 2 different machines. For example,
port 5060 can forward to 10.0.1.2 port 5060 (Computer A)
port 5061 can forward to 10.0.1.3 port 5060 (Computer B)
If you software allows you to change the port number you can connect to Computer A through port 5060 and Computer B through port 5061. I'm not sure if iChat will allow you to change ports or not. I got these example ports for iChat from here
Scott
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