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Re: Outside IP Connection

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On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:29:05 -0800, worthingtonclinton wrote:

> My routers admin panel also does not allow me to port forward anything
> except a local IP.

Perhaps the local IP is the IP which is the destination of the 
forwarding.  If this router is a simple SOHO device, it may only support 
a single IP on the public Internet side, and that IP would necessarily be 
the IP to which some outsider would connect.

In other words, your router is forwarding from sourceIP to destinationIP 
where sourceIP is the public Internet-facing IP of your router and is 
therefore not configuration where one configures the IP forwarding.  Only 
the destinationIP - which is one of many possible IPs on the LAN side - 
is configurable where one configures IP forwarding.

Of course, this is just a guess given that I know zero about what router 
you're using.

	- Andrew

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Outside IP Connection worthingtonclinton@gmail.com - 2014-02-19 18:29 -0800
  Re: Outside IP Connection Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2014-02-20 14:26 +0000
  Re: Outside IP Connection Andrew Gideon <c182driver9@gideon.org> - 2014-02-22 04:02 +0000
    Re: Outside IP Connection Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-02-22 10:57 +0100
      Re: Outside IP Connection Andrew Gideon <c182driver9@gideon.org> - 2014-03-01 20:19 +0000

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