10 Feb 16 16:37, you wrote to Andrew Leary:   
      
    AL>> Are you sure that your port forward in the router is setup to forward   
    AL>> to the correct LAN IP for your BBS machine?   
      
    DS> Yep...I check that before I go into the router. Sometimes, after I've   
    DS> had the systems off for thunderstorms, in bringing them back up, the   
    DS> 192.168.1.# address changes. So, I check that first, then make the   
    DS> changes in the router.   
      
   that's what i was asking about... if the address for your bbs box changes...   
   apparently it can... that's why i mentioned that you should run it as static   
   or pseudo-static so that it has the same address all the time and it can't   
   change... pseudo-static is assigned by DHCP based on the MAC address... if you   
   have to change the NIC, you have to adjust the pseudo-static assignment to the   
   new MAC... static is done on the machine itself without DHCP being involved...   
      
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