Finding my REAL ICS Client IP address

[Anonymous]

I do not know how to find my real ICS Client IP address.

I have ICS setup on a Win2k machine.

On the client I have the following address:

192.168.0.107

How do I get the real IP address that can access the client from the Internet.

I nevere knew how to do this before but mirc figured it out for me in the past, but it doesn't work anymore.

Thanks in advance.

[7ate9]

Are you connecting to the net via dialup or broadband? One thing you can try, is to get to a command prompt and type ipconfig. This should show you the ip address you get from your ISP.

7ate9
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[Anonymous]

I should have probably added that info:

I use a cable modem.

ipconfig on the ICS server reports:

24.100.xx.xxx

It is sharing the internet to the client via 192.168.0.1

Client ipconfig reports:

192.168.0.107

I'd like to know the real IP address of the client machine.

Within the network I can ping 192.168.0.107, but from the interrnet this will not get me to my machine.

How do I find the address that will allow me to connect to the client thru the ICS Server.

THanks

[Anonymous]

Go to www.dslreports.com...choose tools on the left and then choose whois me...click the my ip button...

[7ate9]

If I understand correctly, you may only be getting one public IP address, thats why your client machine is reporting a 192.x.x.x ip address. Depending on your provider and what you're paying for (and I think I reconize that 24.x.x.x ip range) the cable modem is probably only giving you just the one ip address, so for each machine you ICS to, its gonna get a 192.x.x.x ip.

7ate9
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[The_Dude]

The IP address your cable modem gives you is your real WAN address, the 24.xxx.xxx.xxx. The 192.168.xxx.xxx is your LAN ip address or internal ip address, you can't ping it from the Internet, WAN side. ICS preforms Network Address Translation. It converts your LAN ip's to the one WAN ip, and separates what comes in back to the PC that asked for it. It acts like a router. Your ISP see's it as one PC browsing two web sites at once. I would think that you would use the WAN IP for MIRC. It will go to the host PC and then be sent on to the client by the ICS software.

[feelsick]

24.x.x.x is class A. that means the default subnet mask is 255.0.0.0 . pinging the router from the net does it through that mask , which is what the router expects , and it in turn uses the same mask and knows its for it. it also knows that its really for the first pc so it gives it to it.
pinging 192.168.x.x from outside will also be using that 255.0.0.0 mask since thats what the network uses. but 24.100.x.x and 192.168.x.x through that mask produce very different results - and you get sent off to a subnet far away.
with ICS the outside world doesn't talk to your pcs seperately - as far as they're concerned you have one only. its the ICS pc that keeps track of who owns what on the way out and sorts it out on the way back in.