Mary, I forgot to mention a couple of things.
First, Vnc data is not encrypted so data passing over the Internet is 'in the clear'. Think about a tunneling product if you are using the Internet (tunneling products encrypt the datastream but you may need to forward some more (different than VNC)ports. Second, if you use DHCP on the LAN and the systems on it are using dynamic addressing, the address of your VNC server may change and port forwarding will not work right (you will be forwarding to something other than the VNC server) so think about giving the VNC server a static IP (NOT in the range used by the DHCP server); that's the address you use in the forwarding entry in your router. There are other solutions for dynamic IPs but using a static IP when you are forwarding to a single system is the simplest. Alan. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of BPS Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 6:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Configuring a router... Hi! Can anyone help me with very, very basic router configuration instructions, please? First question is: how can I tell if I have a dynamic or static IP address? Second, I want to be able to use both VNC and pcAnywhere. Symantec has posted the following instructions for configuring a NetGear router: "In the Port Forwarding screen, enter ports 5631 and 5632. Add the local IP address where you want these ports to forward to (for example, 192.168.0.3)." Two questions about this - will those ports also be compatible with VNC? Secondly, how do I determine what local IP address I want those ports forwarded to? Thanks very much!!!! Mary __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
