Would having assigning the external 2 IP addresses have anything to do with it?
A virtual Interface?
At 10:04 AM 9/13/2001 -0700, Mickey S. Olsberg wrote:
>Traceroute replies back with the IP of the interface closest to you.
>Where your router's IP on the outside may be ".123", and because of NAT
>the source for the email, traceroute is more than likely reporting the
>next hop beyond that ".124", essentially the gateway for your router.
>You should have also seen in your traceroute the internal IP of your
>router. Does that help?
>
>Cheers,
>Mickey
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Fab Siciliano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:14 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Work with techies that don't help you out.
>
>
>Hey everyone. Terrible stuff goin on these days...let's hope we find a
>solution to a all this chaos.
>
>Ok, for the question. (This may be a stupid question BTW.)
>
>Let's say I have a router. Doing NAT. When I send an email to another
>office, the source ip is different from the IP I get when I do a
>traceroute, and it leaves my network.
>
>For instance. I send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In his header,
>it says that the Source address is 204.186.240.123. When I do a
>traceroute to an external domain the address of the device when it
>leaves my network, is 204.186.240.124.
>
>Why would these addresses be different? Thanks
>
>-Fab
