IIS and port forwarding questions

[Robin_Yuan]

Hi all,
After reading several "for dummies" books, I have come up with some questions regarding on IIS and port forwarding..

1. Since I am behind a router.. I would have to forward the port 80 (by default) for IIS in order to let other people view my asp pages... but by definition of port forwarding:
"When a program is using a port to send or receive data, think of the port as blocked. Meaning that no other program can use a port when it is already in use by a program. Well that is the short and long version of what ports are. "

So say if I've forwarded the port 80 for the use of IIS, how come I still can see a http webpage on IE?!? Woudln't it be blocked since the port has already been used by IIS?



2. Once people come to view my asp pages running on IIS .. is there anywayz I can see their ip or at least the traffic volume in IIS?


Thanks in advance

[rocknbil]

Robin, check your private messages/sticky mail for some URLS I sent. I have a friend that knows more about port forwarding and routers than you can ever imagine, his site has over 1500 pages on the subject and when complete will have 9,000. He's be sure to help! :-)

[Robin_Yuan]

Hey,

Thanks for your url.. actually.... I have already went on these two website 2 days and to be honest with you, 90% of my networking knowledge come from there...:)..

I have read every single artcile that he posted there too..anwyayz.. I will also post my quesetions there..

Thanks a lot:)

Robin