[BC] Lost in IT land ( HELP !! )

[Cowboy]

On Saturday 16 June 2012 12:04:58 pm donroden at hiwaay.net wrote:
> The ISP will provide an outside IP Address of aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
> 
> What do I need to do on the station side of the modem to be able to connect
> to the SAGE from my home computer ?
> 
> Is "port forwarding" a one-way or two way street ?

 Depends on the capabilities of the router, and just exactly what the
 router/firewall means by port forward.
 If it will only route, then you need the router to route the incoming
 request for whatever port the sage uses ( probably 80 ) to the sage
 exclusively, and *any and all* port scanners out there *will* find
 your sage !
 If the router does true port forwarding, then I'd pick a high port,
 something like 28753 and forward that to the sage on port 80.
 Then, when you request http://aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:28753 the sage
 will see the http request on the http port ( 80 ) and respond 
 accordingly.

 Port forwarding can be a two way street, but generally we let the
 machines negotiate their own unused dynamic high port for replies.

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Cowboy