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Accessing a local DSL machine by its external IP
Authored by: joakod on Apr 09, '03 07:45:07PM

Hello!

When i saw this hit i thought it could help me.

I'm a Timbucktu user, and my Mac is behind a Linux router (which connects to dsl). Because my mac ip address is not a "public" address I'm not able to access it using tb2 from outside.
There's also a similar problem when you want to recieve a file using instant messaging apps.

This apparently could solve my problem, but unfortunately the ip adress was detected as duplicated with the linux box. :-(

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Accessing a local DSL machine by its external IP
Authored by: vlipper on Apr 09, '03 08:12:46PM

When I compare your case to mine, the main difference is that my OS X box is your Linux box. My modem does the NAT stuff for me (i.e. translate between outside address and inside address(es)).

If your modem can do NAT, and your that is also the only reason you use the Linux box, ditch the box. But you are probably doing firewalling as well.

I can only suggest to you to look into setting up the routing table on your mac properly. I don't know much about it, but it should be something like:

default linuxbox
osxbox 127.0.0.1
10.0.0.12 127.0.0.1
localhost 127.0.0.1

where the first column refers to the from host (your Mac), and the second to your loopback. (exept for the first, which is your router/NAT/Linux box)

success

ps. ditch Linux and use Darwin, it will save you the trouble of learning 2 routing methods (dialects)

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Accessing a local DSL machine by its external IP
Authored by: Fofer on Apr 09, '03 09:09:37PM

It's called NAT, and port mapping:
http://www.netopia.com/en-us/support/howtodocs/mac/airport.html

(In this case Airport is acting as the router, the same instructions apply.)

More info on using Netopia's IP Locator with a router:
http://www.netopia.com/en-us/support/howtodocs/mac/
dynamicrouter.html



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Accessing a local DSL machine by its external IP
Authored by: mustang_dvs on Apr 10, '03 11:31:53AM

The easiest solution is to set up port forwarding for ports 407 and 1417-1420, so that the external server refers to the specific machine, by IP address.

You can do the same for AIM, but I am not sure of those port assignments.



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