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.