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Originally Posted by Slab
hi, i am trying to forward ports to my router so that i am no longer firewalled. i am using mac os x 2.8. i have visited portforward.com and it says i need a static ip address. my isp tells me they do not offer this, only dynamic ip address. i followed instructions for my particular router at portforward.com leaving out static ip address.
seems i am still firewalled.
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If the instructions say you need an external static IP address, e.g. your ISP needs to supply one, then they are wrong.
More likely what they mean is you need a static internal IP address. That is, if your router assigns the ip address to your Mac then it needs to assign a static address so that a static routing rule can be set up to forward connections to that specific machine between the router.
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