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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