Re: Is this possible?

<nospam@nospam.com> wrote in
news:6cS8f.17270$Ce5.13133@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net:

> Because I can't get this to work any other way, is it possible for my
> machine B on my LAN to connect from port x to port Y on machine A in
> order to get to a website's port Z and then for the traffic to come
> back through machine A to machine B?
>
> If that doesn't make sense I'm trying to get this to work and it won't
> without a router, but I'd love to use KPF4's advanced rules, or
> something like it to allow me to do the following:
>

No it doesn't make sense. :)

> view an external webpage with port 4020 (java applet) on the url from
> machine B going via machine A which has a proxy cache on a different
> port number that can't understand java applet traffic. Machine A
> should be able to detect connections to anyurl:4020 and know the
> traffic is for machine B. Configuring the proxy does not and cannot
> work with java applet traffic.
>
> If you still don't get what I mean, I know its crazy and someone will
> just say buy a router they cost $10 from walmart, but we don't all
> live in the US and Asda here doesn't as far as I know sell cheap
> routers. Neither does PC world. Software should be able to do this
> kind of thing.
>

Yeah, I just don't get it and it sounds real crazy. :)

I also understand they sell refurbished used NAT routers cheap too.

Duane :)
Received on Mon Nov 21 02:35:27 2005