• Re: Multiple BBSes

    From acn@21:3/127.1 to Charles Pierson on Saturday, December 12, 2020 14:40:00

    Am 12.12.20 schrieb Charles Pierson@21:4/127 in FSX_BBS:

    Hallo Charles,

    I could set that one up now, but how do I set things up to point to it?

    As you mentioned, all your devices show the same IPv4 address via whatismyip.com, so you need port forwardings in your router for each of
    them.
    Eg., if you have 4 BBSes on different machines, you can create these port forwardings on your router:

    Port 2301 => bbsmachine1:23
    Port 2302 => bbsmachine2:23

    and so on.

    The same way could be used to have different BBS programs on the same machine, if the BBS programs get different ports:

    Port 2301 => bbsmachine:2301
    Port 2302 => bbsmachine:2302
    etc...

    Using IPv6 is a bit easier, as all your machines have individual IPv6 addresses. You just have to make sure that they always have one specific
    IPv6 address that stays the same (eg. by disabling the "privacy
    extensions"). Then you just have to open the host/port on the firewall.

    Regards,
    Anna

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