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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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