IP Forwarding

Hey all! I'm kind of new to socket programming and I want to make a very basic application to send messages to my computer at home from work. I'm able to get this to work if the server and client setup is on the same network but how can I deal with it if my server is at my house and my client is at work? Someone told me I'd have to do something called IP forwarding to get the router to pass the message to my server. Any ideas?

[440 byte] By [AdrianBa] at [2007-10-3 0:19:55]