Assume I know a basic bit about networking. My question is why would someone want to use Port Forwarding instead of Port Triggering.
For example on my network at home I have 3 computers that all connect wirelessly to a Linksys WRT54GS router which is connected to a wired computer and modem.
Now lets say 2 of those wireless computers want to download something from Blizzard Downloader. The result? Slow as hell. So I find the ports to open and go to the port forwarding page. The port forwarding setup page on the router asks me to input the "Application name", "Port Range", and "IP Address" of the request.
So this is where I get confused. I assume I enter in the IP Address of the wireless computer that is making the request.
For example if an IP Address assigned from my modem to my router (usually 69.186.blah blah whatever time warner decides), the the Linksys router assigns each computer in the chain an IP address usually starting with 192.168.1.101, and 102 so on.
Here is my problem lets say I forward ports to Wireless computer 103, well after 1 day (or one week since I changed the defaults) The device requests a new IP since the client lease time expires.
So wireless computer .103 could be .104 the next week and therefore it would negate the port forward.
Please chime in this is my understanding and I assume Port Triggering gets around this by being dynamic.
For example on my network at home I have 3 computers that all connect wirelessly to a Linksys WRT54GS router which is connected to a wired computer and modem.
Now lets say 2 of those wireless computers want to download something from Blizzard Downloader. The result? Slow as hell. So I find the ports to open and go to the port forwarding page. The port forwarding setup page on the router asks me to input the "Application name", "Port Range", and "IP Address" of the request.
So this is where I get confused. I assume I enter in the IP Address of the wireless computer that is making the request.
For example if an IP Address assigned from my modem to my router (usually 69.186.blah blah whatever time warner decides), the the Linksys router assigns each computer in the chain an IP address usually starting with 192.168.1.101, and 102 so on.
Here is my problem lets say I forward ports to Wireless computer 103, well after 1 day (or one week since I changed the defaults) The device requests a new IP since the client lease time expires.
So wireless computer .103 could be .104 the next week and therefore it would negate the port forward.
Please chime in this is my understanding and I assume Port Triggering gets around this by being dynamic.