A static IP address gives a fixed address to your computer on the local network at your business. Port forwarding is used by computers on the Internet to connect to a specific device on your internal ...
Win2000 doing NAT to get our LAN on the internet.<BR>I used to have port forwarding set up in openbsd and freesco, when we had those, to pass requests for web/ftp to my PC on the local network.<P>Now ...