I'm just guessing, but one is probably your router or default gateway and
one is your mail host.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fab Siciliano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2001 06:14
> 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
>
