Port Forwarding and Static IPs?

[ned99 0]

Hey,

 

I've just switced to Fedora Core 3 and am wondering how to set up a static IP and enable port forwarding so Azureus will run smoothly.

 

I've already set my router to forward ports 6881-6889 to a static IP address but I don't know how to make Fedora use that IP.

 

Thanks.

[BSchindler 0]

Hi Ned,

 

I don't understand what the issue is. As I understand it Azureus is a CLIENT and you are not running a server.

 

You don't have to set up port forwarding in your router (which I assume is some other piece of equipment). Port forwarding is for INCOMING connections, not outgoing.

 

For instance, if you have the Apache Web server running on your computer and you wanted people on the internet to be able to access your web pages, you would forward port 80 to the static address (on your network) of the Apache server. Other users, on the internet, would be CLIENTS while your Linux Box, running Apache would be the SERVER. This is known as NAT (Network Address Translation) routing.

 

HTH

Bill