Port Foward, IP masq problem

[DJediMaster]

Is it possible to forward the same port to two different ips on your local net?

The reason I am asking is because I am trying to get warcraft III working on the net. Without forwarding no-one can join my games. I forward port 6112 (tcp + udp) to my box, 6113 to the second box, 6114 to the 3rd and so on and so forth. Everything seems great people from outside can join the games created. However the problem is no-one within my local net can join the game created.

Wierd thing is that we can still join a game that someone else on the internet makes. Is there any way around this or is it a limitation of NAT? Thanks.

 

[n0cmonkey]

You cannot forward the same port to multiple ip addresses. How would the router know which ip address to forward a new connection to?

By people on your own net do you mean the people behind your router? If so, there is some other problem there, they should not be hitting the router really to get to your machine.

 

[neuralfx]

Can you explain further the situation? As N0c said you simply cannot forward a given port to multiple IP's. By reading your post, it doesn't seem you need one. The fixed port, whatever the WCIII server uses, is only listened on by the WC Server software on the system it resides. I'm not sure I see the situation. As a side note, it is *possible* to forward the same port to multiple nodes, if each node was sharing the same Multicast address, but that is not the case here, just a FYI.
-neural

 

[FUBAR]

If you're not already, you should have your internal people trying to access you by your internal IP (192.168.something.whatever) rather than your real world IP