On Sat 02 Jun 2012 at 09:34:55 -0500, green wrote: > Brian, you seem to be assuming that the router has a public IP (on the WAN > side), which is often not true. Unfortunately, many ISPs provide their > customers with only private/local IPs behind NAT; inbound connections are > therefore not possible unless the ISP agrees to forward a particular port or > port range.
Implicit in my reply was that assumption. It is what I am accustomed to, even though my own ISP offers the facility you describe. Thank you for pointing out how different ISPs allocate addresses. I will try to remember that a router may not have a routeable IP address. Given a choice of ISPs, I'd not choose one who imposes what you describe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120602192822.GM2847@desktop
