Re: how configure LInnksys ADSL router firewall

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On 29 Jan 2006 04:23:40 -0800, "freako" <fraserck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I have a Linksys 4 port ADSL modem.
>How do I set up the firewall so that all computers on my network can
>access certain TCP ports?
>I can't find any way to configure 1 local IP address at a time for each
>port I need. If I try to put a wildcard (*) into the IP fields it just
>complains that it wants a number from 0 to 99.
>There is a game I am running which uses single tcp ports 13139, 27900,
>28900 and 29900 and UDP + TCP port range 60876 to 60976.
>I configured single port forwarding and port range forwarding for this,
>but is only allows me to put in 1 IP address for the packets to be sent
>too, so only that computer on the network will work with the game, and
>if I want to use the game on another network machine I have to change
>all the numbers on the firewall to point to that computer's IP address.
>Is there an easy way to let every computer on the network open the
>necessary ports?
>What does "Port Triggering" do? Does that do what I am wanting? Is
>using the single port and port range forwarding the wrong way to do
>this?

See my reply to your other message please.

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