Router configuration questions

[John Aldrich]

To find out what your WAN IP is, fire up your PC and point a browser to
http://www.whatismyip.com If you don't have a static IP, you may want to use
a free dynamic DNS provider, such as no-ip.com, or dyndns.com. That way you
can always know what your IP is by just using a machine name with one of
their domain names... ie. mymachine.no-ip.com or mymachine.dyndns.com, etc.
You can also set up mail that way on some dynamic dns systems.

As for your router, I don't know a thing about configuring the Cisco
routers, so maybe someone else on the list can help, or maybe there's some
documentation that you can find out there on the 'web.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Crummett [mailto:roncrummett "at" caynetco.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:17 PM
To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: Router configuration questions


Hello - 

I have a couple questions regarding port forwarding setup and remote access.
I apologize that these procedures might seem mundane and trivial to some of
you but I do appreciate the help as sometimes the documentation is like
trying to read War and Peace when all you've ever read is The Boxcar
Children.

Anyway...I am trying to set up VNC on a computer located two hours from
here.  The IP address of the computer is a 192.168.xxx.xxx address so I
understand that I need to set up port forwarding on the router, and then to
connect using VNC I enter the WAN IP address.

1 - First of all, how do I set up port forwarding?  The router is a Cisco
2600 series router and I can Telnet into it for remote configuration.  Is
this the route to take or is there a web-based interface I could use too?
How do I get there?

2 - I have learned that there is a difference between an IP address and a
WAN IP address.  How do I find the WAN IP address?

That's it from here.  More to come as the plot thickens...

Ron Crummett
CayNet Consulting, LLC
(208) 424-1590
roncrummett "at" caynetco.com
http://www.caynetco.com

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