GJ7JHF

** ROUTER information **   (may well not apply to most users)


I am no IT Technician but I am not green either. I had one heck of a
hard time, long enough to have most people to give up, making this work.
If you  have a web page about Ilink I suggest posting the information
below  so that others can get on with minimal headaches.

Log into your router
Click on Advanced
Click on Filters
CLICK ON SPI ENABLE (This was the MAGIC TRICK, it is NOT DEFAULT)
Make sure IP Sec Pass Through is Enabled
Make sutre PPTP  Pass Through is Enabled

Click on Forwarding
Enter in Service Port Range 5198-5201

Click on Port Triggering
Enter APP Name Ilink
Trigger Ports 5198~5201
Incoming Ports 5198~5201

This completes your Linksys Router Setup IF YOU use the standard 
default settings. I can't say if it will work if you have anything 
special set up.

Zone Alarm:

If you run Zone Alarm Pro I do, it does not hurt to have a hardware 
and software protection. You can keep your security at high but still 
allow Ilink to work.

Click on Programs
Click on Ilink.exe on the list
Click on Options
Click on Local and Internet Zone Always Allow (4 separate selections)
Click on the Ports Tab
Click on the selection for Allow Access only on ports checked
Click on Add--> 
Select Custom from the drop down
Check both boxes for TCP and UDP
Enter Ilink for the discription
Type in for the ports 5198-5201
Click on Apply

73's
Rich K4GPS
http://www.qsl.net/k4gps 

** Netgear information **   (may well not apply to most users)

Routers....lots of routers. I've gotten lots of people ask me how to 
get their routers to work with I-link on cable and DSL. The answer 
is easy, you must make a HOLE in your router's NAT firewall for I-
Link to peer out of. In a Netgear, the finest router for the home 
LAN, open the webpage http://192.168.0.1/ and logon with your 
username/password. Click ADVANCED. When it comes up click PORT. 
When the ports come up, on the first blank line under the default 
holes, enter 5198 for the START port and 5200 for the END port. Then 
enter the LAN IP, typically 192.168.0.2 for your first computer or .3 
or .4, so the router knows where to send all calls to these ports 
when the server or that great DX in Pusan, Korea, calls it. 
NOTICE...This is NOT rocket science. ALL CALLS to those ports will 
go to the computer you assign. Only ONE computer now has access to 
the I-Link ports. NO, you cannot run a conference server on 
192.168.0.3 and the sysop software on 192.168.0.2 and I-Link client 
on 192.168.0.4. Only ONE I-Link will run on ONE internet IP. I'm 
BEGGING the programmers to change this. The system already KNOWS who 
is a client, who is a sysop and who is a conference server. EACH of 
these programs need to be called and respond on DIFFERENT PORTS. I'd 
run a 24/7 conference server with some SERIOUS BANDWIDTH if I didn't 
have to shut down my local repeater node to do it. Sorry, can't do 
it now.

73, Larry W4CSC-R World Service
Connecting Charleston to the rest of the planet....