For many modern routers, the software allows port forwarding to multiple machines. Unfortunately, many of the older routers don't (I believe).
Here's a quick guide how to set up port forwarding (assuming you're running Windows):
1. Determine your own local IP and your router's IP
-Start Menu -> Run... and type in "cmd"
-at the command prompt, type in "ipconfig"
-find the section entitled "Ethernet adapter local area connection" and record the value listed for "IP Address"...it should be something like 192.168.x.y
-the value listed under "Default Gateway" is the IP address for your router.
2. Go to your router's page
-Open up a web browser (IE or Firefox will do) and put the router's IP address (the "default gateway") as the address. You'll be confronted with a username and password. If you don't know this, try variations of "admin/password," "administrator/password," "admin/pass," etc. You can alternatively do a google search for the default options for your router, but nine times out of ten (for linksys, for example) one of the above combinations will work.
3. Go to port the port forwarding section
-This varies from router to router, so I won't describe explicitly how to get there or what to. You will generally have a field for port number (or port range), an option for TCP/UDP, and a field for destination IP.
-if there's only options for single ports, create an individual setting for ech port ranging from 6112-6119--otherwise set these numbers as the range.
-set the destination IP to your local IP.
-create these options for both UDP and TCP settings.
Please note that your "local IP" can change every time you turn on and off your computer. You might have been 192.168.0.3 when you set port forward, but tomorrow you're 192.168.0.5. This is because your router dynamically assigns local IP addresses to the machines on its network. You can prevent this from happening by setting up what is called a static IP, which basically creates a permanent map from an IP address to your specific machine. You can look around your router page on how to do this; otherwise, if your bnet stops working, you might have to reset the portforwarding options every time your IP address changes.
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