Despard
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OK, even though I'm a volunteer/tech I manage to get stuck sometimes. This is one of those times, and it's really annoying me. Networking isn't my speciality, though I am learning more about it. I'm having huge problems with setting up port forwarding on my LinkSys router.
My iMac G5 is connected to a router along with three PCs. It accesses the internet fine (obviously!) though I want to make it an ftp server, i.e. forward ports 20-21 to the relevant ports on my Mac.
So first I configured my Mac to have a static IP (192.168.1.24 in this case) instead of using DHCP from the router. That works fine. Then I configured the port forwarding on the router to forward ports 20-21 to ports 20-21 on my Mac, at the IP address 192.168.1.24.
But this doesn't have any effect. For some reason, nobody can connect to my ftp server. I tried a similar thing a while ago with a p2p program, and that didn't work either.
I have scanned for open ports using the Network utility (from Aqua and the command line) and the only open port on the router is port 80.
Anyone got any thoughts? This is really irritating!
Carl
My iMac G5 is connected to a router along with three PCs. It accesses the internet fine (obviously!) though I want to make it an ftp server, i.e. forward ports 20-21 to the relevant ports on my Mac.
So first I configured my Mac to have a static IP (192.168.1.24 in this case) instead of using DHCP from the router. That works fine. Then I configured the port forwarding on the router to forward ports 20-21 to ports 20-21 on my Mac, at the IP address 192.168.1.24.
But this doesn't have any effect. For some reason, nobody can connect to my ftp server. I tried a similar thing a while ago with a p2p program, and that didn't work either.
I have scanned for open ports using the Network utility (from Aqua and the command line) and the only open port on the router is port 80.
Anyone got any thoughts? This is really irritating!
Carl