Steve de Mena wrote: > Nashton wrote: >> Alan Baker wrote: >>> In article <4890ba35$0$4017$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net>, >>> Nashton <nana@na.ca> wrote: >>> >>>> My server at home has an internal ip of 10.0.1.200. All port >>>> forwarding for filemaker pro, for example, is done via the ABS and I >>>> can connect to it via the internet merely by typing the static ip >>>> address: 72.168.2xxx.xxx. Now, if I wanted to connect to another >>>> database hosted on another computer at home with an internal ip >>>> address of 10.0.1.150, for example for the same application (FMP), >>>> running a different database on that particular computer, how would >>>> I do it.. >>>> >>>> TIA >>> >>> I haven't had a chance to work with FileMaker in a while, but IIRC, >>> it should be possible for you to override the default listening port >>> it uses for a particular database. >>> >>> Specify different receiving ports on the ABS to forward the incoming >>> requests to the different receiving ports on the database server. >>> >> >> Thanks. IOW, I will duplicate the ports that FMP (or any other >> application) needs to send and reveive data, just change the internal ip. > > I think you do NOT want to duplicate ports, you want to use different ones. > > Steve
ABS doesn't permit duplication of ports, anyway. I just tried it. So, is it correct to say that if I'm using port xxyy on 1 computer, I would use <static ip>:xxyy and for the other, <static ip>:yyxx for the port yyxx on the other computer on the LAN?
