zer0 the her0 <plazmadroidSPAMICIDE@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:404120E4.6030102@yahoo.com:

i know youre into computers, i have a networking question. i am
running a game server and have it enabled for internet gaming, but its
using my local network IP. is there a way i can make is listen to my
ISP assigned IP and not on my local network IP?

the senario im looking for is to allow people from the net to connect,
and still be able to connect via my network. im googling and reading
up but though you may have an easy answer. email me if you prefer.

ive also read all my docs for my router, it has NAT enabled, so im
clueless.

I'm not 100% sure, but I doubt you can do it if you run the program behind
a NAT-based firewall unless you can do port-forwarding from said
firewall...

NAT basically means that the firewall is the only things visible from the
outside world, and you connect to the internet through the firewall. It
does mean however that it is very tricky to get connections the other way
as the internet can't see the computers behind the NAT connection...

If your firewall can manage port forwarding - which I suspect it can but no
idea how - then set that up to point the appropariate port(s) to your
computer, and cross your fingers :)