"Paul McNett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sure, that's how it is here in the US too. You have a modem/router > supplied by the cable or DSL company that provides DHCP and NAT for > outbound traffic.
Comcast supplied me with a DHCP cable modem that comverts whatever the cable uses for transport to standard ethernet signals. I supplied the 4-port NAT ethernet router which seems to block at least some uninvited inbound traffic. > and what if both computers > wanted to participate on the port 6000 fun? Recently, I had one family member use my purchased account to logon to and play an online action game, which sends a constant stream of update info. Then, curious what would happen, I logged on, from a different computer but through the same router, with a temporary guest account. Somewhat to my surprise, it worked -- without touching the computer (XP) or router settings. And kept working the whole weekend. So there is a way to tag update packets so they can be reliably separated into two streams (and vice versa). Solipsis should be able to do the same. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
