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port forwarding question
So I'm going to be living in a house next year with 5 roommates (yay junior year in college) and I'm going to be setting up internet connection sharing through a hardware router, most likely something along the lines of a linksys router connected to a switch. I'm curious how to configure port forwarding on the device so that multiple users can utilize the same software.
To be more clear: Let's say Person A and Person B want to use BitTorrent. BT uses ports 6881-6999. On most routers, it allows you to add ports and route them to a specific IP. example:
6881 to 6889 192.168.1.____
How can I set this up so everyone can utilize these ports? I heard you could use a asterisk? So 192.168.1.*
But that doesn't make much sense to me. Or maybe I'm a little confused about what port forwarding does.
I'm also going to probably be setting up static IPs using that or a similar SOHO router. Anyone have any great guides for network configurations?
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