Time Capsule Drive on WAN + NAT not working.

Hi I'm having trouble setting up my TC.
I can enable access to the drive by enabling "share disks over Ethernet WAN port" - people can simply connect to the tc drive using my WAN IP.
What I can't do is enable NAT Port Mapping at the same time because then people can't access the drive via the WAN IP anymore.
I then tried disabling "share disks over Ethernet WAN port" and then manually tried adding "Personal File Sharing" - it won't let me use a public port of 548 - It simply says "a public TCP port number conflicts with a file sharing port on the base station - Disable file sharing or choose a different port number". So I did, I made the public port 1000. Now people can access the drive via the WAN IP but have to add :1000 onto my ip address.
Why can't I just enable "share disks over Ethernet WAN port" so people can access my tc via my WAN IP (without :1000) and have my local machine in the DMZ (default host) while having NAT enabled for my torrents at the same time?
thingi

I know that! The problem was not that simple..... You can't be in a DMZ and share your TC drive over the web at the same time.
I used to keep my mini in the DMZ by enabling the 'default host' and setting the ip manually on the mini so it always got the same ip = no NAT error when using torrents. You can't do that and have a TC which is contactable over the wibbly web.
So instead I took the mini out of the DMZ and set the TC to always give the same ip address to my mini by using a DHCPClient ID instead of using the default host.
I could have used the MAC address of the ethernet port in the access control list on the TC but that would have limited me to ethernet only. Sometimes I move my mini to under the tv to watch movies but that's not got ethernet......
That doesn't matter though because you can set the same DHCP Client IP for more than one interface in OSX This means that when my mini connects via ethernet or via airport I get the same IP address which means that the mini can continue downloading torrents without having to change the port forwarding on the TC or mess with manual IP addresses on the mini WooHoo!!!!!!
The real beauty is that I then use the 'Set Service Order' to make ethernet first, then airport. Even when both interfaces are enabled with the same IP address OSX is clever enough to route to ethernet first due to the service order. When I unplug the ethernet cable bang my net connection swaps right over to the airport with no fuss whatsoever on the same IP Torrents continue perfectly because the correct port routing is still applied.
This means that port forwarding always works because the mini always gets the same ip address even though it's assigned by the TC's DHCP server. I didn't know that the TC could give a specific IP to a specific client. I really didn't expect the multiple DHCP Client IP trick to work!!!!
It also means I'm safer because I'm behind the NAT firewall instead of being open due to being in the DMZ (why apple call it default host I'll never know).
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