Re: what is my IP?
On Saturday 29 January 2005 11:47, John Hasler wrote:
>Gerhard writes:
>> Is's not that bad if you want to help someone per remote
>> administration, who doesn't know how to tell you his current IP.
>> Nevertheless you're right.
>
>It tells you what the IP of a machine is as seen from the Net.
> Because of NAT this may differ from the IP on the computer.
>--
>John Hasler
This would be the case for anyone useing a router as a firewall/nat
box. The machines local address has no relationship to the address
the network see it at.
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