Undocumented (not in the iClose-Up Help) Routers:
· If you have
just one incoming iClose-Up connection behind your router, click here.
· If you have
multiple incoming iClose-Up connections behind your router, click here.
· If you are
using an alternate (different) IP address for incoming connections (like
Netopia Routers can use), click here.
Single
iClose-Up computer behind an undocumented Router:
If you want to have one
incoming iClose-Up connection to a computer behind a router that is not
documented in this help file you will need to make one adjustment to iClose-Up
on the iClose-Up computer behind the router.
1.
On the iClose-Up computer behind the router double
click on the red iClose-Up triangles in the lower right of the screen.
2.
Click the Options button.
3.
Click the Proxy tab.
4.
Check the box on the line Internet Connection
Sharing/Proxy Servers/ Routers.
5.
Click the OK button then restart your computer.
You now need to setup your Router
to forward port 2338 to the IP address of your iClose-Up computer that is
behind the router. If you do not know
how to find the IP address of a computer see How to Find IP Addresses.
With most Routers if the computers
behind the Router are using Dynamic IP addresses you will have to change
one or more of the computers to Static IP addresses. Please read your Router documentation or
call the Router manufacturer for instructions on how to setup Static IP
addresses.
Multiple
iClose-Up computers behind an undocumented Router:
If you want to have multiple
incoming iClose-Up connections to computers behind a router that is not
documented in this help file you will need to follow the directions below.
First, with most Routers if the
computers behind the Router are using Dynamic IP addresses you will have
to change one or more of the computers to Static IP addresses. Please read your router documentation or call
the Router manufacturer for instructions on how to setup Static IP
addresses.
Now go to each iClose-Up computer that you want to receive incoming
iClose-Up connections (be able to be iClose-Up Servers). On each computer you will need to change
iClose-Up’s port number and write down on a piece of paper that port number and
what IP address (if you are using Static IP addresses) that computer has. You do this so you can later associate that
new port number with its IP address in your Router.
On the first iClose-Up computer double click on the red iClose-Up
triangles in the lower right of your screen.
Press the Options
button. Select the Proxy tab.
First, check the box on the line Internet Connection Sharing/Proxy
Servers/ Routers. Next in the line iClose-Up
Port Number for this computer you would enter a new port number (we suggest
using port 50222). Enter 50222 on the
first of the computers behind the Router then press the OK button.
A message will come up telling you to restart your computer, wait; do
not restart your computer yet. Write
down this number (50222) and then, if your router forwards ports to machines
via their IP address which most routers do, find the IP address of this first
computer and write the IP address next to the port number (you may depending on
whether you had static or dynamic IP addresses have put this IP address in
yourself). If you do not know how to
find the IP address of a computer see How
to Find IP Addresses. Now go ahead
and restart your computer. On the next
computer you would repeat the same process, double click on the red
iClose-Up triangles in the lower right of your screen. Press the Options button.
Select the Proxy
tab. First, check the box on the line Internet
Connection Sharing/Proxy Servers/ Routers. Next in the line iClose-Up
Port Number for this computer you
would enter the next number in sequences 50223 then press the OK button.
A message will come up telling you to restart your computer, wait; do
not restart your computer yet. Write
down the port number and then find the IP address of this computer and write
the IP address next to the port number.
Now go ahead and restart this computer.
On the next computer you would repeat the same process again and
increasing the port number by one to 50224 and again write it down and then
find the IP address of this computer and write the IP address next to the port
number. If you had more iClose-Up
computers you would keep repeating this process.
With the information you have
gathered and written from your iClose-Up computers you will need to read your
Router documentation or call the Router manufacturer for instructions on how to
setup port forwarding on all the ports you changed in iClose-Up to the IP
addresses of those iClose-Up computers.
In our example above you would be forwarding port 50222, 50223 and 50224.
Alternate
IP Address for Incoming Connections (Netopia Routers):
Sometimes your ISP gives you an
alternate (different) IP address for an incoming connection than the IP address
used for outgoing traffic. Some Routers
like Netopia™ Routers allow you to have one or more alternate IP addresses, one
address for each computer behind the Router that will be getting incoming
connections. If your router uses, an
alternate IP address for an incoming connection you need to tell iClose-Up this
by setting the Alternate IP Address option. You would need to set a different IP address for each computer
that is behind the router if you are going to have multiple incoming
connections and you have multiple IP addresses assigned to you by your ISP. To
do this, double click on the red iClose-Up triangles in the lower right
of your screen. Press the Options
button. Select the Proxy
tab. First, check the box on the line Advanced
Options. Next enter the IP address
your router will accept incoming connections on in the Alternate IP Address
field. Now you can click the OK
button to complete the setup. If there
are multiple iClose-Up computers that will receive incoming connections then on
each computer set it to a different Alternate IP Address.