Addendum:
...or you exactly know which port(s) your game uses and you can
configure NAT rule(s) to translate your WAN adress to your internal
adress...
Daniele
Andrew Batson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to allow some friend(s) I know to connect to a computer
> game I have. I know there IP address they are coming from and have add a
> rule to allow then in but M0n0Wall keeps blocking them.
>
> What I did was create a rule on the WAN to allow the specific IP
> address to pass though to the Private IP address of the PC I am playing the
> game on.
>
> For example: Outside world IP address is "aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd"
> Private IP address of the PC I want to allow them
> to connect to is "123.456.789.000".
>
> So I create a WAN Rule as follows:
>
> Action: PASS
> Disabled: uncheck
> Interface: WAN
> Protocol: TCP/UDP
> Source - Type: Single
> Address: aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
> Source port range - from: any
> to: any
> Destination - Type: Single
> Address: 123.456.789.000
> Destination port range - from: any
> to: any
> Fragments: uncheck
> Log: Uncheck
> Description: Test rule
>
> However, the firewall keeps blocking the IP Address. Is there any
> way to tunnel a IP address from the outside world to the private IP address
> behind the Firewall? I am a little confused here? If some one could give me
> a example that they know works that would be of great help. Or is it not
> possible to do this at all.
>
>
> -Thanks for your help,
> Dyslextic
>
>
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