Sharing Ports
<div class="IPBDescription">on xp sp2</div> Ok, my setup is that I have one computer that internet comes into, and from that it goes to 5 other computers on the network. To play a game like Warcraft 3 online, I had to tell the main computer to share port 8112 with each of the other 5 computers. Now I have to give each of those 5 computers ports from 10000-60000, but this would mean at least 50000 entries in my internet connection sharing thingy. There has got to be a way I can give it a range of ports to share, or even just tell it to share all ports across the whole network.
edit: hopefully, I can keep them closed externaly, but have them open for all internetwork traffic.
edit: hopefully, I can keep them closed externaly, but have them open for all internetwork traffic.
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Baha, that program is terrible, If I were you, I'd honestly consider converting that main PC into a hardware firewall with a linux distro and configuring it that way, because windows XP's ICS makes you enter each and every last port.
Well, then, could you say, re-design your network like so?
edit: if so, configuring port ranges on a router is easy like depots mom(i only wrote that cuz i see him reading <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
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You might consider getting a $10 special from the thrift store and slapping Linux on it. A 486DX will do perfectly fine. The down side of course is a higher power draw than one of the embedded solutions.
The short version is, ICS is utter and complete crap. Don't use it, if you need to do anything more than let someone plug in on a laptop to browse a few web pages.
Winxp ICS makes you specifiy it one by agonizing one.
If you find one tell me, because I havent seen one.
Two other possibilities. Depending on your ISP, you may be allowed to use more than one IP address. If this is the case, take a look at XP's Network Bridge.
Second, if you can identify where in the registry XP stores the port mappings they would probably be faster to add there than in the ICS configuration. Basically, find the piece in regedit, export it, and either edit it by hand or write a batch file to generate the new parts (run <span style='font-family:Courier'>help for</span> in cmd.exe for instructions).
I would take a look, but drew a blank on google and my XP box gets whiny about my router on 192.168.0.1 -- even though it is trying to use ICS on two virtual network cards that are not connecteed to anything... *grumble*
Chris
This sounds promising, and I will look into it. However, I do not know muhc (read anything) about the registry so if anyone can help it would be appreicated.
Any good router will allow you specify a range of ports, mine will allow me a set of up to 32 ranges. The maximum range on mine is something like 5000 ports, so your configuration will take 10 ranges, but it'll be better than ICS by a long shot