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by robertjfarrell

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Thank you for the response but a few questions remain.
When I run CMD on say the host computer, I get a different IP address from
the address given from
WHATISMYIP.COM. Whichever address I utilize, PC Anywhere will not connect.
I am also using static IP address's on all host and networked computers.
Each restaurant has a back office computer with which we would like to
communicate over the DSL as opposed to modem dial-up via PC Anywhere.
Any ideas?
BF

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by the admiral

Understand that when you go to Whatismyip.com, you may be going through a corporate LAN that is designed to MASK your IP address. Take my DSL provider. They provide me with one dynamic IP that the router gets, but between my workstation at the 192.X.X.X address and the ISP with the encoding and encryption, by the time it gets there it is something completely different.

You may want to do a trace route in order to better understand where your IP changes as it goes through the networks.

by nick

The IP that you get from www.whatismyip.com is your WAN IP (the address that people see coming to your network and coming from your network). The IP you see from the cmd window is your LAN ip (the IP's that are given to the machines LOCALLY).

Nick

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