>>Just the SWAG that your machine is set up with a dynamic IP address. You can
>>check by: Right click Network Neighborhood, select Properties from the context
>>menu, then TCP/IP properties. The IP address tab would have the "Obtain IP
>>address automatically" option selected.
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>George,
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>I checked it and found a fixed IP address 192.168.1.5 for my network adapter, still Winsock.LocalIP shows 192.168.120.254. But I found that address as a fixed IP address in the properties of my ISDN adapter, which is supposed to obtain its address automatically from my ISP. It shouldn't work with that fixed address, but I am in the Web right now!
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>Last week I played around with Win2k Server and an internet router, maybe my network setup got messed up then. The router had the IP 192.168.1.254 and was DNS, I have never seen or typed the subnet 192.168.120 and there was no DHCP involved. I am a little bit confused, have to dig into it.
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>Thank you for your advice!
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>Robert
192.168.x.y is an official Internet Private LAN address like 172.16.x.y It will not 'route' over the internet. In other words, it would not be possible to PING a computer that has the address 192.168.120.254 over the Internet. So you probably have this address on your computer on your LAN (every computer on a LAN must have a unique IP) and then have another IP that you got when you dialed into your ISP. Go to START | RUN and type WINIPCFG to look at all the IPs that are now active on your computer on all the interfaces.