2Wire Port Forwarding.

This is kinda confusing so I hope it will be understood.

I have a Home Network consisting of 2 Desktop PC's with the same FTP Program installed on each, and each has it's own Server.

I have 2 web pages with links to both Servers, and with my previous Gateway WebPage 1 links were forwarded to port ??? on PC1, and WebPage 2 links were forwarded to port ### on PC2.

I now have a 2Wire 2700HG-E Gateway and would like to know if someone can tell me if it is possible to set this up the same way, and, if so, how to do this.

As far as I can tell I can only forward anything for the same program to one or the other PC, but I can't forward different ports to different PC's.

Many Thanks.

 

Port forwarding works for ports & not for programs. You can forward individual different ports to different PCs.

Most probably a routing table would have been setup in your previous setup to route different IP's [your servers] to different PCs.

 

Thank you for the replies.

With this Gateway it is necessary to edit the firewall settings to allow programs to get through, which is what caused my problems because with my limited knowledge I don't know nuthin'.

When I added the program to the allowable list the Gateway would only allow this to be added to one PC, but I found that if I gave each port it's own fictitious program name then everything worked.

Actually, for anyone who may find this useful, I also had a brainwave, in my case more of a brain ripple. Instead of giving each port to be forwarded a fictitious program name, I made the program name the same as the port number, which makes the ports forwarded easy to see at a glance in the network summary.