Port forwarding

[Floyd Sense]

I'm certainly no expert at this, but just got mine working this morning and 
can tell you what I did.  I have a wireless router and LAN connected to my 
cable modem.  To connect across the Internet to a PC on my wireless LAN, I 
connect to the WAN IP address of the wireless router, and have port 5900 
enabled.  In my Dlink wireless router, I have defined a virtual server 
(maybe same as port forwarding?) which relates the LAN IP address of the 
target machine to the port number.  I can define both a public and private 
port number, but have them both defined as 5900.  I used www.gotomyvnc.com 
to test with while playing with the parameters.  Hope this is useful to you.

Floyd S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Thomas" <mike "at" pathwaylearning.com>
To: <vnc-list "at" realvnc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 2:58 PM
Subject: Port forwarding


> I'm trying to conceptualize why I can't get my VNC setup to work. If I
> understand correctly the VNC viewer needs the IP of my machine not my DSL 
> modem.
> I believe I have the correct ports open. Then I need to port forward my 
> modem to
> my machines IP? Is this correct? Or do I have it backwards?
>
> Mike T
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