Portforward.com

Gadgetman496

Portforward.com had a little Static IP generator on its Website which was quite handy but it does not appear to be there any more?

I know you don't need this to set a static on your PC but it was handy for those who don't fully understand how things work.

Does anyone know what happened to it or where or why it's gone?





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axer

Nothing to understand really.

For the normal simple networks the ip addresses look like x.x.x.y
e.g. 192.168.1.44

The x's will remain the same number as the default gateway and y can be any number between 1 and 254 [inclusive] (but you cannot have more than one computer with the same y nor can it be the same as the default gateway).

e.g.
default gateway:
192.168.13.254
x's = 192.168.13.
y = 254

Static IP 1:
x's = 192.168.13.
y = 1
IP = 192.168.13.1

Static IP 2:
x's = 192.168.13.
y = 2
IP = 192.168.13.2

Static IP 3:
x's = 192.168.13.
y = 3
IP = 192.168.13.3

and so on. Couldn't be simpler.

The subnet mask will always be 255.255.255.0 on those small networks (the ones that have a 192.168 at the begining of their ip addresses) in case you need it.

EDIT: on their website they said that the tool was too old and that there were problems when people were forwarding ports to static ip's what were inside the pool range of the DHCP (the service that automatically gives out IP addresses). Let me know if you have any questions about the above and I will help you out.

Cuddlesworth

How would a internet application find out what the lease range is for DHCP and choose a available IP that is outside of it.

Gadgetman496

You misunderstood what I was asking.

I fully understand what you have explained but that was not the question.

I'm a little surprised that you don't understand that many domestic users who just want to open a port for torrents ect. don't seem to be able to get their heads around that (well, in a lot of cases anyway ).

I was just wondering why they(Portforward) would have removed it (If in fact it has been removed & not just moved somewhere else on their site).

Thanks for the explanation though


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axer

I answered in the edit just as you posted above. The eircom (netopia) routers will actually forward to a hostname instead of an IP address which is better thus you can leave the DHCP on and still forward the ports.

axer

Just to add to what I posted about port forwards reasons. From what I can see they are trying to have a guide for each type of router instead of the static ip generator. At least that way they would know the default dhcp pool of IP's for each tutorial then.

Gadgetman496

axer wrote: »

I answered in the edit just as you posted above. The eircom (netopia) routers will actually forward to a hostname instead of an IP address which is better thus you can leave the DHCP on and still forward the ports.

Just saw your edit axer.

Ah! well, gone it is so

Thanks for the Info.

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