Steve Heaven wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 13:16 +0000, Steve Wood wrote: > > >> Like it, I've not seen that one. Unfortunately the mobile networks seem >> to use a proxy system unlike most ADSL/cable services. > > I connect with Vodafone's 3G (or GPRS) service and get a 'real' IP > address. > the last three I had were: > 212.183.136.194 > 212.183.136.193 > 212.183.134.67
Yes it is a real address but it is not a dedicated address for your machine. Vodafone proxy it for multiple users. Hence you can't connect back to it from the outside world, which is what I am trying (and failing) to do. Coincidentally my current public address is 212.183.136.193, which was your last one. Small world :-) The main practical annoyance of address sharing when I'm connecting from the boat to the outside world is that some servers don't allow multiple connections from the same IP address so I can for example go to rapidshare.com and be booted off because it thinks I'm already downloading something when in reality its a different user on the Vodafone network. Regards Steve
