ICS and port-forwarding

[Pete C]

Does port forwarding work in XP? I have a broadband modem
connected to a host computer, which is in turn connected to
a hub, which has two client computers connected to it. The
internet connection sharing features work fine, and each
computer can see the others and share files, printers, etc.

One client computer is running a web-server, and the host
and other client can access the content from this server
(either by it's name or internal (192.168.0.2) IP address).
However, once the host is setup to forward TCP port 80 to
the client web-serving machine (by name), the web server is
unaccessable to the outside world by entering the IP
visible to the outside world.

My ISP does allow web-servers on port 80, if a server is
setup on the *host* machine and the outside world visible
IP is entered in a browser then the server is visible and
serves content.

This leads me to think that the problem is in the
port-forwarding, or its' setup. Any help greatly appreciated!!

 

[Guest]

Yes it does work. Here is my setup. Win2003 server connected to cable modem. It has two NICs. One connected to the modem and the other the hub. It enabled ICF and ICS. I have a Win2k Pro and a SUN box connected to the hub. On the Win2003 Server I have configured ICF to forward requests to 8181 to 80 on the Win2k Pro box and 8282 to 80 on the SUN box. the Win2k Pro box worked no probs and the SUN box worked after I configured some network settings. I would make sure that port 80 is not in use on your machine connected to the cable modem. Hope this helps.