[X Newbies] New Mac user/Airport Extreme

[Scott]

On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 18:57PM, Watrat wrote:

> Good evening,
> 	I am not sure if I am posting this in the right forum, but thought I 
> should start here.  I am a week into being a converted mac person and 
> am still in the "taking baby steps" process and am lost.  Here is what 
> I am doing and whats happening and could use any and all advice.
> 	I have a Windows XP desktop and a 12 inch powerbook with an airport 
> extreme card.  The XP machine is plugged into the LAN port of the 
> airport extreme base station, the WAN port has my cable modem, and the 
> powerbook connects wirelessly.  Both machines connect to the internet 
> and the range is better than I imagined.  I have a program on my 
> windows machine called ISPQ which is a video chat program..I can send 
> messages and not receive them, which is normal with a router.  I 
> followed their instructions for the airport and added port mapping for 
> ports 2000-2003.  Still, nothing.  I have this setup in port mapping 
> as they instructed:
>
> Public Port                Private IP Address                     
> Private Port
> 2000                            10.0.1.201                             
>     2000
> 2001                             10.0.1.201  2001
> 2002                              10.0.1.201                           
>     2002
> 2003                              10.0.1.201 2003
>
> my Router is 10.0.1.1
> my powerbook is 10.0.1.2
> my pc is10.0.1.3
>
> 	I would also love to be able to get music files off of my pc into 
> itunes and am not sure if thats why the ispq program isn't 
> working...because I don't have a home network setup to share 
> files...doing that is a whole other burden at this point.
> 	I would greatly appreciate any help.  Thanks very much


Tom - The port mapping you have listed above has your private IP 
address as 10.0.1.201. Was this from the ISPQ instructions, or an 
example sheet? If so, that's your problem. For ISPQ to make use of 
these ports on your PC, you need to use the PC's private IP address in 
the port mapping.

If your machines' addresses are:
> my Router is 10.0.1.1
> my powerbook is 10.0.1.2
> my pc is10.0.1.3
                ^^^^^^^^^^^
The the private IP mapping to allow traffic to ISPQ on your PC should 
be:
Public Port                Private IP Address                     
Private Port
2000                            10.0.1.3                                
  2000
2001                             10.0.1.3                               
  2001
2002                              10.0.1.3                              
  2002
2003                              10.0.1.3				 2003
                                     ^^^^^^^^


Hope this helps,
Scott