Firewall question

[Simon Hobson]

>Thanks for the reply! Port 5900 is currently open, as I *can* connect from
>*inside* the firewall to a host outside. The problem occurs in that I need
>the connection in the other direction, .. i.e. I need to make the machine
>*inside* the firewall the host, and I cannot see a way to connect from that
>machine as a host to a remote. (It is running an off-net IP address.) IOW,
>I need the 'host/server' (behind the firewall) to call the 'remote' because
>the host is NAT and can only support an outbound connection.

>You have to bind an external ip adress to the internal one...  That way if
>you ping from the internet -  I assume - , you actually ping internal.

Actually, you specify an individual port (in this case 5900) on the
external interface which should be forwarded to a specific address (and
possibly port) on the internal network. Any decent router should be able to
handle different ports re-directed to different machines.

Simon
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