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"Vladimir Stefanovic" <spam@not.needed> wrote in message
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> Can you please explane me (in general) how the router
> (which is the node between LAN & Internet in my case)
> knows which server & port I'm addressing in LAN?

You need to use port forwarding for that.  It is a configuration inside the
router itself.  You tell the router to listen on a specific port.  When a
socket connection is made from the Internet onto that port of the router,
the router then makes a second socket connection to a specific IP address on
the network.  The two connections are then liked together and data
transferred between them.

> I feel that I now have less data specified at my client config
> to accomplish the connection with router and further with
> the service in LAN.

Correct.  You have to configure the router itself to tell it what to do.

> I only have IP & Port which should be entered in config
> to connect to server. I suppose that I must somehow
> supply IP&Port of server, but how can I address the
> router at the first place?

You do not specify the IP/port of the target server on the LAN.  You specify
the IP/port of the router itself.  It has to be publically accessible like
any other server would be.  The router then handles the rest of the
connection internally as needed.


Gambit