router/ip question
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- vburo
i have this dsl account and i cannot set up my local server to share stuff cuz all these apps give me generic IP's like 10.0.0.150. And when i look up my IP it is different on every check.
is there a way around this???
- vburo0
bah. nevermind.
- zedvox0
GIVE HIM THE FUCKING HELP HE WANTS!!!
come one guys someone's gotta know!!
- sparker0
yes.
you need to configure your router to a) use either static ip addresses for each node on the network (in which you must set the static ip on each node individually) or add a "reservation" via the router to always give the same ip address to a particular mac address for the node. b) you then have to configure the router to port-forward all requests of a certain type to the internal IP address of the device you wish to share publicly.
- vburo0
great. that really helped.
not.
is there some app for os-x that does this in a mouseclick?? i am not really a nerd.. :(
but thx for the advice tho!
- sparker0
this can be problematic given the chance of the isp changing the public ip address of your account, or in the case of some ips giving you "internal" class ips of their routers, in which case you cannot access your home server publicly at all.
it would basically be a router behind a router. some isp's do this to deny users the ability to run home servers.
just depends on your circumstance.
what type of router do you have? do you know the public ip address of your account? do you have a little bit of tcp/ip knowledge?
- sparker0
no there isn't. if you want to do networking, rtfm.
- vburo0
no i don't want to DO networking, it's not really a hobby of mine.
i am trying to share a movie file everyone wants here.
that's all. :(
but i appreciate you efforts. thx sparker.