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Help with this Network Situation, please.

J

JoshFink

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OK, the point of this is that I want to run an FTP server..

I can't get a cable modem at my house, but a neighbor down the street can (long story).

The cable modem comes into his house into a Linksys Wireless router. I built an antenna and the connection is transmitted wirelessly to my house into a laptop that has both a wireless network card for receiving the broadband connection and 100 base T network card that is wired into my main switch in my house. This laptop runs Internet Connection Sharing under Windows 2K Professional to propagate the Broadband connection in my house.

No problem, works great, I can usually get around a 800k connection.

The problem is that I want to open up a server that is behind the Wireless Router and also behind the laptop that runs ICS.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Josh
 
ok here is how you do this in theory:
1. make his wireless-broadband-router forward all connections to port 21 (if that's the port your ftp server will be listening on) to ip address assigned to your Laptop.
2. Your laptop has then to forward all connection attempts to the pc running the ftp server.

practical:
1. I don't know anything about the "Linksys Wireless router", you should check if it has the feature "port forwarding"
2. WinXX ICS does NOT do port forwarding, use the router service that comes with Win2K server, or run another router program on the laptop.

have fun configuring your boxes 🙂
 
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