Subj : BBS Setup question
To   : Richardw
From : Aceboy
Date : Wed Feb 13 2002 01:03 am

  Re: BBS Setup question
  By: Richardw to Aceboy on Wed Feb 13 2002 07:58 am

Yah it worked.  Basically you can tell the cable modem router to forward to one
IP address and only one I guess for security reasons.  The addy of my PC was
192.168.1.100 so I went into the configuration and had everything forward to
that IP address.  Needless to say when I set up my DNS of darkside.dtdns.net
that it logged in perfectly.  I came here to work and it worked, but I think
the BBS crashed at home though :-(  I got logged in and I got to the part where
it asks if I want to enter the synchronet match maker and I hit enter for no
and it just hung.  Now I cant telnet in so Im thinking something happened at
home.  Anyone heard of this happen.  Im also running v3.00B and I thought I saw
rob was running 3.10.  Is that available to the public for download?  Thanks
again to everyone who was patient in helping me get going.

Neal
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 >   Re: BBS Setup question
 >   By: Aceboy to Amcleod on Tue Feb 12 2002 06:53 pm
 > 
 >  > Ok I have a Linksys cable modem router, but I'm honestly confused.  Rob s
 >  > thebbs.org does host domains for free, but I have no fricking clue what m
 >  > addy is.  When I connected to Robs board here it said I was calling from
 >  > 24.93.177.166 so I tried to telnet to that and it said it couldnt open it
 >  > my Linksys 10/100 network card says its IP address from winipcfg is
 >  > 192.168.1.101 and when I telnet to that I connect to the BBS, t Im positi
 >  > I goto an outside computer that will not connect me.  Does that make any 
 > 
 > You must configure that cable modem router to do the port forwarding for you
 > The cable modem router acts as a firewall, so requests never reach your pc. 
 > must be configured to forward the request to a machine on your local network
 > As I've never done this, I have no clue how to do it with a cable modem rout
 > Please share your experiences, as I might need to do this in the near future

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