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Old 05-16-2009, 11:00 AM   #2 (permalink)
johnwill
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Re: One router, 2 PCs and the same port.

Correct, you can only port forward to a single machine behind the NAT layer.

Think about it, how would the router know which address to route the incoming packet to if you could forward the same port to multiple machines?
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