How to use Winsock control in a Broad band router

[arunb]

Hi,

I have used the winsock control before, but only on Dialup connections where the network IP address of both the server and the client (my PC) was known.

But now I have a broadband router that connects to the internet, my PC is connecetd through a LAN, the IP address is obtained dynamically.

I would like to know how I can make applications that communicate with each other on the internet using the Winsock on such networks ???

Your help will be much appreciated..........

thanks
arunb

[x2fusion]

You have to port forward!!!

If is port 80 ur usein the 80 -> 80

as the person trying to access ur IP on port 80 ..

will use 80 an be forwarded to 80 .. I know a bit complicated ..

Any ways a google search .. on it will help .. more

[Al42]

Try http://portforward.com/

Basically you go into the router and tell it which port number to forward to which computer for incoming connections. (Outgoing connections - those you initiate - don't need to be forwarded. Only those requests initiated by another computer - and one outside your router - need to be forwarded.) Then you use the winsock control the same way as before, using your external IP address (connect to http://www.whatsmyip.org/ to find it) from the other computer. (From your computer your IP address is always 127.0.0.1, or you can run ipconfig from a cmd window to see your actual internal IP.)