Ah ok, that new 
relative and absolute addressing.
absolute addressing is when the link is a fully qualified URI.( http://www.sitename.com/pagename.php) which in your case is going to be ( http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/pagename.php)
relative is just referencing the folder or file name in links and the HTTP user agent (browser) then normalises the reference into a FQ URI by adding the protocol ( HTTP://) and the HTTP hostname (domain.tld) to the URL in the link.
document relative is where the URI would be normalised WRT the current document or folder so from index.php say you can only access files at the same level or go down the folder structure.
so if you are in a folder of temp, a reference to images/pic.jpg would be normalised to domain.tld/temp/images/pic.jpg
root relative is where the addition of a "/" to the page name forces the reference to be normalised from the site "root" (the domain name) so from "temp" again /image/pic.jpg would normalise to domain.tld/images/pic.jpg
You need to tell the forum config NOT to add the IP to links so it creates absolute references, but create root relative references and allow the UA to normalise the references into whatever the HTTP hostname is, in your case the IP used.
HOWEVER the problem may be one of port forwarding/NAT translation not handling the return traffic correctly (depends on the router)
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