Portforwarding and Static IP

[haze03]

I am trying to set up port forwarding on my Linksys BEFW11SR for use with Bitorrent and have had poor luck. When I first went to the router setup and try to save after setting portfowarding, it didn't work. I tried three more times to no avail, after it saved and went back to the screen after 5 seconds the portforwarding fields kept being empty. A tutorial I came across on-line said I need a static IP for port forwarding, so I found another tutorial on how to set that up. I changed my local connection settings to 192.168.1.2 and when I did the same on the Linksys I couldn't access the Net. After trying to set both back to obtain IP automatically it still wouldn't work and I had to reset my router. Anyhow, I am a bit frustrated and a step-by-step walkthrough from one of you guys would help.

 

[Thor86]

How about trying 192.168.0.10 for your IP on the inside lan? I don't think Linksys use 192.168.1.x, but it's been awhile since I've setup one of those.

 

[mboy]

Go back and set it up as a DHCP addy.
The open a command prompt and type ipconfig /all

Note ALL of the settings (gateway, DNS,etc).
Go back and create your static IP (same subnet as gateway, but don't use same exact ip obviously). You will need to manually anter the IP addy, gateway (the LAN IP of your rotuer, your DNS servers (most likely from your ISP which you should have gotten off the ipconfig /all).
That should give you your net access, then you can forward to that IP on any one of the 65K+ ports u like

 

[haze03]

Thanks I up and running now.