router setup

simple network, zoom x5 dsl router with external static ip, nat to
192.168.0/24 lan for web server and some other stuff... that all works fine.
but i want the router to redirect requests for the external ip back to the
internal web server. right now it seems to intercept them and send to it's
internal configuration server. this router has many more options than i
have used on a router before and i'm kind of at a loss about which option i
could use for this. i'm kind of thinking that a nat rule would do the job,
but i'm not sure what it would look like. any ideas, or pointers of how to
set this up??

You need to set up port forwarding. The link below has some instructions
for the Zoom X5v

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/hardware...2/zoom-x5v.asp

Look for the section that has: "Our example shows TCP Port 80 being
forwarded to the computer on the IP address 192.168.0.200..."

--
Greg Lindsay [MSFT]

Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights.

"Dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> simple network, zoom x5 dsl router with external static ip, nat to
> 192.168.0/24 lan for web server and some other stuff... that all works
> fine. but i want the router to redirect requests for the external ip back
> to the internal web server. right now it seems to intercept them and send
> to it's internal configuration server. this router has many more options
> than i have used on a router before and i'm kind of at a loss about which
> option i could use for this. i'm kind of thinking that a nat rule would
> do the job, but i'm not sure what it would look like. any ideas, or
> pointers of how to set this up??
>

thanks, but it looks like that is an old example, mine doesn't have the
'virtual server' button, but has several others not pictured there. i am
thinking there is probably a way to write that kind of rule into the nat
stuff, but then decided that probably the more correct way would be to
configure my own dns for the lan... so i did that on my server and now
everything on the lan is happy and i don't have to play with hosts files or
any more nat rules. for some reason those nat rules always give me a
headache, i know what i want to do, but except for the simple 'forward an
outside request into a server port' i never seem to get them right the first
time.


"Greg Lindsay [MSFT]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> You need to set up port forwarding. The link below has some instructions
> for the Zoom X5v
>
> http://www.adslguide.org.uk/hardware...2/zoom-x5v.asp
>
> Look for the section that has: "Our example shows TCP Port 80 being
> forwarded to the computer on the IP address 192.168.0.200..."
>
> --
> Greg Lindsay [MSFT]
>
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
>
> "Dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> simple network, zoom x5 dsl router with external static ip, nat to
>> 192.168.0/24 lan for web server and some other stuff... that all works
>> fine. but i want the router to redirect requests for the external ip back
>> to the internal web server. right now it seems to intercept them and
>> send to it's internal configuration server. this router has many more
>> options than i have used on a router before and i'm kind of at a loss
>> about which option i could use for this. i'm kind of thinking that a nat
>> rule would do the job, but i'm not sure what it would look like. any
>> ideas, or pointers of how to set this up??
>>
>
>