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    From Charles Pierson@21:4/127 to All on Fri Dec 12 05:46:00 2025

    Those of you that run multiple BBSes I have some questions.

    As it appears that I mostly have this one running, I still have to figure out details lije different Message Groups for different Networks, etc.

    But I have potentially 4 more devices that I could set up BBSes on for experimenting. Different OSes, Different programs, whatever.

    Do I need to do port forwarding for each device? Or how do you set it up so that each one has a unique ip? Because whenever I check with whatismyip.com they all show the same address.

    For exampke, I'm running this just like Meat's instructions say. MysticBBS on Ubuntu 20.

    I have another unused, older phone that I was letting the grandkids play
    games on before they all got their own phones that I was thinking about using Debian and mmaybe Synchronet or Enigma on, since those are the only other programs I know of that have ARM versions available.

    I could set that one up now, but how do I set things up to point to it?

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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Charles Pierson on Sun Jan 11 02:52:07 2026

    Re: Multiple BBSes
    By: Charles Pierson to All on Sat Dec 12 2020 05:46 am

    Do I need to do port forwarding for each device? Or how do you set it up so that each one has a unique ip? Because whenever I check with whatismyip.com they all show the same address.

    If you only have one IP then you need to use a different port for each BBS that you want available to the outside world.

    If you have IPv6 each device gets it's own IP but on IPv4 the same IP is shared between all your computers.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From acn@21:3/127.1 to Charles Pierson on Fri Dec 12 14:40:00 2025

    Am 12.12.20 schrieb Charles Pierson@21:4/127 in FSX_BBS:

    Hallo Charles,

    I could set that one up now, but how do I set things up to point to it?

    As you mentioned, all your devices show the same IPv4 address via whatismyip.com, so you need port forwardings in your router for each of
    them.
    Eg., if you have 4 BBSes on different machines, you can create these port forwardings on your router:

    Port 2301 => bbsmachine1:23
    Port 2302 => bbsmachine2:23

    and so on.

    The same way could be used to have different BBS programs on the same machine, if the BBS programs get different ports:

    Port 2301 => bbsmachine:2301
    Port 2302 => bbsmachine:2302
    etc...

    Using IPv6 is a bit easier, as all your machines have individual IPv6 addresses. You just have to make sure that they always have one specific
    IPv6 address that stays the same (eg. by disabling the "privacy
    extensions"). Then you just have to open the host/port on the firewall.

    Regards,
    Anna

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  • From Havok@21:4/10 to Charles Pierson on Sun Dec 21 17:27:00 2025

    Re: Multiple BBSes
    By: Charles Pierson to All on Sat Dec 12 2020 05:46 am

    But I have potentially 4 more devices that I could set up BBSes on for experimenting. Different OSes, Different programs, whatever.

    Hello there

    One thing you could look into is pfsense it would do all your port forwarding
    plus have a enterprise firewall. I have been using it for about 5 years and
    no lockups or os fails. I started on a normal pc box then last year bought
    a Checkpoint 2200 T-110 6-Port Gigabit Security Appliance for 70 bucks on
    ebay and burn 40w instead of 240w.

    I'm very happy with both the OS and the box.

    Just a thought!

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  • From Havok@21:4/10 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Dec 24 08:20:00 2025

    Re: Re: Multiple BBSes
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Havok on Tue Dec 22 2020 08:36 am


    With a single IP, DD-WRT on a modern router seems to do the trick,
    though.

    As someone states on TV, I LIKE IT!

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  • From Havok@21:4/10 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Dec 25 09:27:00 2025

    Re: Re: Multiple BBSes
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Havok on Thu Dec 24 2020 07:20 am

    I'm playing with Entware, a way to install Linux packages on DD-WRT.
    I've got a USB drive configured as an ext3 partition, added a swap partition, and installed nginx. The plan is to have my border router reverse proxy web traffic to my proxmox host for validating SSL
    certs, my BBS, and a test system I'd like to expose without using different port numbers.

    First hope you enjoy today!

    Let me ask you being you may know better then me, I'm thinking of playing
    with docker why is it so much better the say oracle virtualbox. I'm wondering
    myself being I have played with about all of them other the docker.

    Merry Christmas!

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  • From Havok@21:4/10 to deon on Fri Dec 26 14:26:00 2025

    Re: Re: Multiple BBSes
    By: deon to Havok on Sat Dec 26 2020 09:57 am




    VMware, Proxmox, Hyper-V, virtualbox, etc are all about slicing a machine up to run multiple "machines" on a single physical machine. So you need to manage devices, OSes, etc inside the virtualised environment. Some of those are better than others because, of features like machines floating between 2 physical machines, virtual networking, etc.

    If that is the case I'll stick with VMware!

    I have ran VMware and Hyper-V and liked both, by the sounds of it I'll
    stick with VMware for running a bulletin board.

    Thanks for the information though...



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  • From Havok@21:4/10 to deon on Tue Dec 30 16:08:00 2025

    Re: Re: Multiple BBSes
    By: deon to Havok on Sun Dec 27 2020 07:57 am

    So for me, I'm a huge fan of docker (and of VMware).

    It all sounds interesting and soon as I get a smaller server I'll have to
    play with it. But as stated looking for a smaller server to run vmware on
    then comes the play time.

    Thanks for the information and ideas..

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