I am trying to do some port forwarding. But I cannot seem to get it to work.
I have read many news posts and have a few questions.
I have read it seems that I cant port forward if my machine is server/gateway. (which it is) Is this true?
If I set up port forward on say port 80 of my outside computer to go to an internal sme computer (10.1.0.200) that has a web page on it do I just put in the external ip of the first computer:80 and with 80 in the browser and it will connect. This is not what I want to do it is just IM trying to get something to work but cannot. So I thought this would be a test.
I saw comments on the fact that you cannot test the port forward from inside the network. Is that true ? Perhaps all this problem is that I simply am not doing it from outside. Cant I just put in
http://externalip:80 and get what I want, when Im inside the network that the sme is on?
Finally depending on all these answers. Is there not some simple way to see if this is working for me. some simple set up that is bound to work. I would just like to see if it works and then build on that.
Thanks.