On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Steve Heaven <[email protected]> wrote: > I connect with Vodafone's 3G (or GPRS) service and get a 'real' IP > address. > the last three I had were: > 212.183.136.194 > 212.183.136.193 > 212.183.134.67
They look like DHCP type assigned addresses, so now you just have to hope that the routers inbetween you and the rest of the world don't have port filtering on them! I tried to get Vista to play nicely, but this was through a bluetooth modem link to my Nokia E71 which was possably stopping things, and I have no idea how to set up Vista in this way anyway, so gave up. host203.msm.che.vodafone [10.203.64.4] 4 host203.msm.che.vodafone [10.203.65.1] 5 host203.msm.che.vodafone [10.203.65.135] 6 host203.msm.che.vodafone [10.203.66.68] 7 host203.msm.che.vodafone [10.203.66.193] 8 host203.msm.che.vodafone [10.203.66.212] 9 host203.msm.che.vodafone [10.203.70.158] Hmmm, not sure how vodafone have set up their network, but looks overly complicated, here is a tracert from 3: Tracing route to ptr-216-8-179-26.ptr.nextdimensioninc.com [216.8.179.26] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 284 ms 640 ms 785 ms 172.31.152.21 (Class B private IP) 2 387 ms 339 ms 279 ms 217.171.129.125 (a 3 owned router) 3 737 ms 574 ms 249 ms 217.171.128.36 (another 3 router) 4 1197 ms 583 ms 582 ms 172.31.252.114 (Class B private IP again!) 5 538 ms 549 ms 574 ms 195.50.90.153 (London Telehouse North CSL2) 6 472 ms 565 ms 582 ms ae-32-56.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.68.116.190] 7 505 ms 649 ms 624 ms ae-42-42.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.137.70] 8 497 ms 599 ms 649 ms ae-61-61.csw1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.134.66] 9 547 ms 624 ms 674 ms ae-62-62.ebr2.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.134.81] 10 546 ms 649 ms * ae-2.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.132.65] 11 642 ms 360 ms 349 ms ae-1-100.ebr2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.132.42] 12 347 ms 323 ms 625 ms ae-8-8.car1.Detroit1.Level3.net [4.69.133.241] 13 347 ms 328 ms 349 ms ae-11-11.car2.Detroit1.Level3.net [4.69.133.246] 14 372 ms 349 ms 365 ms MANAGED-NET.car2.Detroit1.Level3.net [64.152.144 .78] 15 363 ms 531 ms 349 ms ndcolo-gw.win.mnsi.net [216.8.136.66] 16 356 ms 411 ms 553 ms ptr-216-8-179-26.ptr.nextdimensioninc.com [216.8 .179.26] Trace complete. Not sure it helps, but good luck. Cheers, Mike -- Michael Askin http://shoestring_DOT_zapto_DOT_org/
