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From: Nashton <nana@na.ca>
To: All
Subject: Re: Port forwarding question.
Date:Thu, July 31, 2008 12:19 AM


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.


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