Re: I don't know how to configure the router!

--- In [email protected], joe panico <pixory@y...> wrote:
Thanks for your help, the problem was however that I was running 
ZoneAlarm (probably not neccessary since I'm using an external 
Router/Firewall). ZoneAlarm didn't log any alerts but somehow stoped 
the traffic anyway. 
Now it works!

  /Joel

> Joel,
> 
> > I suppose that I somehow have to setup the router to
> > let traffic 
> > reach the prixory server.
> 
> Yes, that's what those of us running pixory at home
> do.
> 
> Yes, you have to forward tcp port 8081 from the router
> to the actual ip address of the machine that is
> actually running pixory.  I have set up my home lan to
> assign fixed ip addresses to each of the machines on
> my lan, so that I can reliably port forward to my
> Pixory machine. My particular router (Buffalo) allows
> the DHCP built into the router to assign specific ip
> addresses to specific machines based on the address
> (MAC) of the ethernet card in the lan machine. Or you
> could statically assign an ip address to the pixory
> machine yourself.
> 
> Bottom line: you must forward tcp port 8081 to the ip
> address of the machine that runs pixory. If you type
> 'ipconfig' at a command prompt on the pixory machine
> (that's for windows, 'ifconfig' for linux), it shows
> the ip address that should be the destination of the
> port forward assignment in the router.
> 
> good luck,
> 
> joe
> 
> --- jolle70 <jolle70@y...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I just started to try to use pixory, and I think it
> > will be perfect 
> > for what i want to do, if I only manage to configure
> > my 
> > router/firewall...
> > I have a static ip and a router (with firewall?) to
> > be able to have 
> > 2 computers in a my private network.
> > 
> > I suppose that I somehow have to setup the router to
> > let traffic 
> > reach the prixory server. There is a setup page for
> > the router 
> > (called port forwarding) where I can connect a port
> > number to an ip 
> > number.  
> > Should the portnumber be 8081?
> > Which ip number shall I connect it to? My "official"
> > ip or my 
> > dynamic internal ip? Or maybe something called the
> > "LAN port ip".
> > 
> > Any help is appreciated!
> > 
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> >   /Joel
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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