-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 20:28:22 +0100 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat 02 Jun 2012 at 09:34:55 -0500, green wrote: > > > Brian, you seem to be assuming that the router has a public IP (on > > the WAN side), which is often not true. Unfortunately, many ISPs > > provide their customers with only private/local IPs behind NAT; > > inbound connections are therefore not possible unless the ISP > > agrees to forward a particular port or port range. I am technically able to reach my local computer from outside the local network by connecting to an IP address, assuming the proper port is forwarded to the correct subnet address. > Implicit in my reply was that assumption. It is what I am accustomed > to, even though my own ISP offers the facility you describe. Thank > you for pointing out how different ISPs allocate addresses. I will > try to remember that a router may not have a routeable IP address. > Given a choice of ISPs, I'd not choose one who imposes what you > describe. > But although I technically *can* do this, very effectively, my ISP gets pissy if I do it very much at all. :( This whole thread is really because I want to do one-off data transfers without running a web server and without necessarily having to worry about persisting availability of data that might be being downloaded. If that happens I could be disconnected (though probably temporarily). - -- Aubrey "There are two types of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPyy6BAAoJEDqgFXa7UFQOfsgH/j+z2OWDCPnFvUMj6qrZCu/p hy+XSprVeLRyift++Ksxbu35sGCEi9XDjkyQERhO1ghZW9fRv3EsHEVBg/mk3wiu nupKTf0rFA7KbLEhhGbpLaA3xSlKsnFxgV4BNijbExcXz76W3PfSv4cryNND1RbB n7jR7MMGtM87ywxy+gdm86nZ1A4fLNVPN2mhweAZAuCqNe8lPWzSuuqF+LA2ptZ6 n+xHJlG8RGMacuN1STMrP+4H1Ha5xHM1vcwlZWVfpJHLRl0zDj0Vah0AnU+Lxvs/ gKPZu9Q74WvYeVOJf28ux1j29yO1UvM0ZftXE2Tv7sRDrocM7RMU/zuTFWffVyQ= =Nubl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
