Any takers? I am running a FTP Server and I am unable to connect to it from outside my LAN. All information I have found indicates that DHCP on my Linksys BEFSR41 router must be disabled to use the Port Forwarding feature on this router. This is out of the question, since I am using a DHCP connection (AT&T broadband). Is there another way to accomplish accessing my FTP over the WAN? Thanks guys and gals Main System: AMD 1.4 Ghz 512 MB DDR OS: XP Professional (Ver. 2002) RCA Cable Modem Model-DCM235 Linksys BEFSR41 router

You don't need to have a static address for your WAN side, but it sure makes it easier to get to from the outside on a consistent basis. As far as the internal (LAN) side, you need a static IP on the ftp server so you can forward the ports 20& 21 to your ftp server. You can use DHCP for the rest of the network, just shrink the DHCP pool on the Linksys and make the IP address of the ftp server the next address after your DHCP pool ends, or any address not used by the DHCP pool in the same subnet for that matter.

The lazy way is to port forward to 192.168.1.2 and turn the ftp server on first and leave it on. The better way is to give the FTP server an IP of 192.168.1.200 and set the port forwarding to the same IP.

Remember you can still give your FTP server a static address and have the rest of your clients use DHCP.