Ian B. Jacobs wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I offered myself a geek treat and installed a Linksys
> BEFW11P1 [1] EtherFast � Wireless AP + Cable/DSL Router w/PrintServer.
I have been playing with this router quite a bit over the
past couple of days since I wanted to set up an icecast
server (with lots of help from Ted Guild!). I have not had
much luck getting an informed answer from the Linksys people
about whether it's possible to forward port p on the router
to port q on some machine in the local network.
Some forms of port forwarding are possible:
* "Virtual Hosts" (Under "Advanced"): For a port "p" that is
part of a set of 10 well-known ports (identified by service name,
not port number, as in "Web"), you can forward to port "p"
on another machine on the local network. In short:
- You can only forward 10 ports.
- You can't bind router:p to mymachine:q (only mymachine:p).
I called the tech support several times to find out whether
arbitrary portmapping were somehow possible; one person thought
so, but I never did get a useful answer.
* DMZ (Also under "Advanced"): For any port router:p, you can
forward it to mymachine:p where mymachine is in the local net.
I *think* this is what's happening. The manual says the DMZ
setting puts one machine "outside the firewall", but how
would someone have access to this machine if there isn't
some kind of address or port translation?
* Special Apps (Also under "Advanced"). I haven't figured out
what these are. It's supposed to allow
"two-way communications", but I haven't understood how.
- Ian
> [1]
http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?grid=22&prid=171
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