On Thu, October 15, 2015 5:11 pm, Brian wrote: > An ISP hands out an address in a private range and it is assigned to the > external interface of a router? I do not understand this but know I have > much to learn about networking. Any enlightenment in the offing?
No; in the present (original) installation, the address (192.168.100.3) is assigned to the (Windows desktop) computer, and there is no router. But, conceptually, is there anything wrong with assigning a private IP address to the WAN port of a router? Russ