[IWE] UPDATE

[Andrew Grygus]

On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:28:20 -0600, Jay Burns IV wrote:

>Know about VNC, heard about SSH.
>
>Next idiot question goes something like, "VNC or SSH to /where/?"  Home 
>machine is generally off, and even if it were on, I currently haven't 
>the slightest idea 1) what my cable modem's IP address is, and 2) How to 
>get access to it on the other side of the router.
>
>(I'm educable, though, so any ideas on how to do that?  The 
>"documentation" that accompanies the router is just the other side of 
>useless, and Comcast is generally inaccessible...)

Generally a cable modem acts as a bridge and just passes traffic 
through without an address change so if your computer is attached 
directly to the cable modem the numbers you get by typing 
ipconfig /all (Windows) are the real numbers accessable from 
outside.

If you have your own router between the cable modem and your 
computer you can get the real addresses by loging into it and 
checking the WAN status. If you have an internal router that 
gives your local network a private address range (like 192.168.1.n) 
you'll need to program a port forward to your computer's IP 
and address the router's WAN address from the outside.

If your cable modem is actually a router, giving you private addresses 
on the LAN, then you need information from the service provider.

Andrew Grygus