port forward on public signal

[clembury]

I'm connect via airport to a bridge that i run. That bridge connects to a public wifi which I'm told has it's own ip but gets its signal wirelessly(if that matters). Assuming that the network administrator will work with me to set up port forwarding, what should I be asking him to do(or what info do I need to get from him) and secondly if he does this is this do I need to be sitting at my cpu to coordinate anything w/ him or can he just give me the info I need to complete things on my end? Then there's the bridge. There's no firewall on the bridge so will this just repeat the port info that the server sends as if it's not there? I hope I gave enough info to start answering this.
Thanks,
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[Satcomer]

Well for one thing make sure you let him know about Apple's document "Well Known" TCP and UDP ports used by Apple software products.

Now a bridge is a device connecting you (the user machine) to the internet. Connecting through it is a fact of how they are dishing out IPs. You then want to get the login information from the network person and input them in System Preferences->Network. If it is a windows network pay attention to System Preferences->Network-Advance-WINS tab to log into Windows networks.