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Fab · 11-16-2002, 07:58 AM

I have a Linksys router with a firewall to connect my wife's an my computers to a single cable line. I'd like both PCs on the LAN to be able to connect to the same external server in order for us both to play the same game online. The problem is, I can only forward the port to one of the internal IP addresses. Either I can play, or she can play, but not both of us.

Now I understand why this is a problem, but is there absolutely no way to get us both using the same port? Is there any software available that could somehow enable us both to use the same port on the firewall so that we could both be connected to the same external server at the same time? It seems to me I'm not the first person to run into this problem, but I would think someone would have come up with a solution by now.

I'm running Win98se while my wife has Windows ME, with a Linksys BEFSR41 router. I'm not sure what other information could be pertinent to the problem, or the solution. Any help would be great. Thanks.

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Fab Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 17 OS: Win2k	Forwarding one port to multiple PCs I have a Linksys router with a firewall to connect my wife's an my computers to a single cable line. I'd like both PCs on the LAN to be able to connect to the same external server in order for us both to play the same game online. The problem is, I can only forward the port to one of the internal IP addresses. Either I can play, or she can play, but not both of us. Now I understand why this is a problem, but is there absolutely no way to get us both using the same port? Is there any software available that could somehow enable us both to use the same port on the firewall so that we could both be connected to the same external server at the same time? It seems to me I'm not the first person to run into this problem, but I would think someone would have come up with a solution by now. I'm running Win98se while my wife has Windows ME, with a Linksys BEFSR41 router. I'm not sure what other information could be pertinent to the problem, or the solution. Any help would be great. Thanks. __________________ There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.