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**GroundZero3** · July 8th, 2009, 11:35 AM

Generally when you forward ports, you forward them to a machine that has a static ip address. The reason for this is if the computer gets a new DHCP address the port forward will still be sending it to the old address breaking the configuration

July 8th, 2009, 11:35 AM	#5 (permalink)
GroundZero3 A hero in training Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Norfolk, VA Posts: 26,826 Blog Entries: 15	Generally when you forward ports, you forward them to a machine that has a static ip address. The reason for this is if the computer gets a new DHCP address the port forward will still be sending it to the old address breaking the configuration