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Re: Some basic router questions and zoom

From Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.networking
Subject Re: Some basic router questions and zoom
Date 2020-12-17 17:14 -0600
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On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 22:49:44 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh wrote:
> No, that is not your internet address. That is the internet of the
> address of your router or of the ISPs router, depending on how to handle
> things.
> ifconfig -a
> will give you your computer's IP address. And that is usually a
> non-routable address like 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x.
>
> The "internet address" as you define it will be the same for all of the
> computers in your own local network. For example on my system, I get
>  75.155.y.y for all of the computers on my home network, where y.y is
>  the same for all of them.
>
>  That address is the address of the router that connects me to the
>  internet.

Heheh, we are in a violent agreement that if you want to connect to another
site/user on the Internet you have to use the Internet Ip Address.
If you want to connect with anyone on LAN side you have to use the LAN
ip address.

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Some basic router questions and zoom Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2020-12-16 09:54 -0600
  Re: Some basic router questions and zoom "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2020-12-16 12:57 -0500
  Re: Some basic router questions and zoom Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2020-12-17 17:38 +0100
    Re: Some basic router questions and zoom Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2020-12-17 11:55 -0600
      Re: Some basic router questions and zoom William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2020-12-17 18:50 +0000
        Re: Some basic router questions and zoom Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2020-12-17 15:07 -0600
          Re: Some basic router questions and zoom William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2020-12-17 22:49 +0000
            Re: Some basic router questions and zoom Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2020-12-17 17:14 -0600
              Re: Some basic router questions and zoom William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2020-12-18 00:04 +0000
                Re: Some basic router questions and zoom "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2020-12-17 19:54 -0500
                Re: Some basic router questions and zoom Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2020-12-17 19:35 -0600
                Re: Some basic router questions and zoom Dick <rsutton43@comcast.net> - 2020-12-18 09:58 -0500
                Re: Some basic router questions and zoom Dick <rsutton43@comcast.net> - 2020-12-18 10:06 -0500
            Re: Some basic router questions and zoom Johann Beretta <beretta@nun-ya-bizness.com> - 2020-12-21 10:19 -0800

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