Hi guys,
I relatively new to routers and how they work and I've been struggling with this issue for months and cannot seem to solve it. I want to access my web server via the public IP address on my internal network. I know it can be done (apparently) by reading the discussion at this link:
https://supportforums.cisco.com/t5/wan-routing-and-switching/how-to-do-nat-reflection-nat-hairpin-on-a-cisco-1800-router/td-p/2754725
But I cannot get it working on my router. Just so you know, I have no idea what I'm doing and I have figured things out by searching the internet for examples (I cannot even tell you what router I have and the version of the software on it, I just don't have any idea how to figure THAT out), but for this issue I'm going to need help. I've read and reread on how things work and they may as well be written in Greek for all that I can understand, so trying to get me to understand how it all works is (apparently) useless. In any event, if someone is willing to work with me in configuring my router I would be forever grateful.
My basic configuration is the Cisco router providing access to the internet and all NAT translations are done on it. I have a wireless Linksys router connected to the Cisco router over which I connect my laptop and other devices that need to access my servers internally over the public IP address from the laptop. I cannot use the host table to solve this problem because the other devices that do not have that capability and they would need to access the server via the public IP address, I currently use the host table on the laptop to access the servers from it but need to change that. Can anyone walk me through this?
R/
Prescott ....
