Scott,
That sounds really difficult for me to understand. Since its above my head,
I'll simply force users to directly connect to their cable modem to play,
instead of going through the router. Later when my game is fleshed out more,
I'll come back to this problem and solve it. Thanks for the help though. Now I
know for sure its something I couldn't code on my own.
CrystalSpace support people rock is all I have to say. There's no way I'd
have gotten as far as I have on a 3d video game without you guys.
,Jim
Scott Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey Jim:
Basically, how it works is that you probably have a DHCP address. If
you're behind a router, what usually happens is that the address your
machine is getting is different than the address that it's sending out.
For instance, if you're on a cable modem service, the ISP assigns an IP
to your cable modem. This would be a global IP address that the world
can see you at. If you have a router connected to this, it uses NAT to
assign an IP address locally to all the machines on your network.
In order to host a server behind a routed home network, you need to get
the external interface address of your border router, and then have your
border router forward incoming ports to a specific host inside your network.
~Scott
Jim Sager wrote:
> How can you tell the difference between a real IP and a home network?
>
> I'm starting to write some S2P2P(server to peer to peer) software, and
> I need to be able to differentiate between a real IP and a home
> network IP. From what I am told, you can't really be a server to the
> internet if you're behind a router on a home network IP. At least I
> can't run Apache and have people access my web address when I am on a
> home network IP.
>
> Any help is appreciated. I'm sure the answer is easy. I just don't
> know it.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> PS: I have a new computer I can code on while I fix my 3d gaming machine.
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