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Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Luke O'Malley used:
>
> X-Newsreader: Procomm Plus
>
> There's something you don't see often.
>
>
Isn't that something they used to hand out with modems?

"Mike Easter" <> wrote in news:46c72e59$0$97239
$:

> TJ wrote:

>> "Mike Easter"
>
>>> It takes me a lot longer to try use fewer words than more.
>
>> All kidding aside. The OP's questions could have been answered with
>> three words. "Yes and Yes."
>
>
> <or>
> Luke O'Malley wrote:
>> I have three computers and they are attached
>> to a router. Do they all have the same IP address?
>
> Yes and no.
>
>> If someone
>> hooked onto my wireless system would they have the same IP address?
>
> Yes and no.
> </or>
>
> That isn't very many words, but it isn't very helpful.


Again. None of us know (yet) what Luke O'Mally was driving at.

I assumed, and possibly mistakenly so, that he was asking about the IP
that is visable to the outside world. Not the "individual" incoming IPs
assigned by the router to each of the machines in his LAN.

I have three machines here on my LAN. And no matter which one I post
this message FROM, the IP in my headers will be the same. Yes?

And if I had an insecure WAN, and somebody were to tap into it and post,
it would show up as my IP, Yes?

Or no?

TJ wrote:
> "Mike Easter"

>> Yes and no.

>> That isn't very many words, but it isn't very helpful.

> I have three machines here on my LAN. And no matter which one I post
> this message FROM, the IP in my headers will be the same. Yes?

Yes.

> And if I had an insecure WAN, and somebody were to tap into it and
> post, it would show up as my IP, Yes?

Yes.

And if you click your Run ipconfig (or winipcfg) and look at 'your' IP
address it won't say that. It will say your LAN address. From your
LAN's perspective, all of the LAN's computers have their own addresses.

--
Mike Easter

"Mike Easter" <> wrote in
news::

> TJ wrote:
>
>> I have three machines here on my LAN. And no matter which one I post
>> this message FROM, the IP in my headers will be the same. Yes?
>
> Yes.
>
>> And if I had an insecure WAN, and somebody were to tap into it and
>> post, it would show up as my IP, Yes?
>
> Yes.

Thank you.

<snip>

And in case you got the wrong impression? I too, thought your explanation
was spot on, and well written.

Rôgêr wrote:

> Luke O'Malley wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Perhaps you can help. I have three computers and they are attached
>> to a router. Do they all have the same IP address? If someone
>> hooked onto my wireless system would they have the same IP address?
>
> No, and no. No two devices can have the same IP address, otherwise it
> simply no workee.

Hehe. Seen that one or the other time, just like coax networks with a
christmas tree of tee-pieces on the backside of the poor server (and yet
the poor thing still worked more or less). In case the IP protocol gave no
connection, they just added netbeui or ipx or all of them .

Rôgêr wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Luke O'Malley used:
>>
>> X-Newsreader: Procomm Plus
>>
>> There's something you don't see often.
>>
>>
> Isn't that something they used to hand out with modems?

I'm pretty sure it does hark back to at least the early 1990s.

<wikiness>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasto...ologies%2C_Inc.


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Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Rôgêr wrote:
>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>> Luke O'Malley used:
>>>
>>> X-Newsreader: Procomm Plus
>>>
>>> There's something you don't see often.
>>>
>>>
>> Isn't that something they used to hand out with modems?
>
> I'm pretty sure it does hark back to at least the early 1990s.
>
> <wikiness>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasto...ologies%2C_Inc.

No article by that name, but never mind. If I remember right, and that's
a sure bet (lol), I'd already discovered early early versions of
Netscape by the time I got Procomm Plus and never looked into it very
much. Except I sort of recall it being command line based. Kind of
reminds me of not too long ago I had an email server running Fedora. I
could send emails from the command line. Couldn't get much more basic
than that, so to speak.

Bada bing Rôgêr <> bada bang:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Rôgêr wrote:
>>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>> Luke O'Malley used:
>>>>
>>>> X-Newsreader: Procomm Plus
>>>>
>>>> There's something you don't see often.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Isn't that something they used to hand out with modems?
>>
>> I'm pretty sure it does hark back to at least the early 1990s.
>>
>> <wikiness>
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasto...ologies%2C_Inc.
>
> No article by that name, but never mind. If I remember right, and that's
> a sure bet (lol), I'd already discovered early early versions of
> Netscape by the time I got Procomm Plus and never looked into it very
> much. Except I sort of recall it being command line based. Kind of
> reminds me of not too long ago I had an email server running Fedora. I
> could send emails from the command line. Couldn't get much more basic
> than that, so to speak.

From a cached Google search:
====
PROCOMM is a public domain communications package written and
distributed by PTL Software Systems. Occasionally, a public domain
software package becomes available that outshines most commercial
software products. PROCOMM is definitely one of these products.
The authors of PROCOMM suggest that users who find this software
useful, give their support with a $25 donation.

PROCOMM will run on an IBM PC, XT, AT or close compatible with
either an RGB color, composite or monochrome display. I have
personally used PROCOMM with an IBM PC, XT, AT, Zenith 150,
Olivetti PC and a COMPAQ. PROCOMM will not run on a Zenith 120.
====

Google for procomm dos

Mike "Kermit file transfer" Yetto
--
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free
government ought to be to trust no man living with power to
endanger the public liberty."
- John Adams

Mike Yetto wrote:
> Bada bing Rôgêr <> bada bang:
>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>> Rôgêr wrote:
>>>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>>> Luke O'Malley used:
>>>>>
>>>>> X-Newsreader: Procomm Plus
>>>>>
>>>>> There's something you don't see often.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Isn't that something they used to hand out with modems?
>>> I'm pretty sure it does hark back to at least the early 1990s.
>>>
>>> <wikiness>
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasto...ologies%2C_Inc.
>> No article by that name, but never mind. If I remember right, and that's
>> a sure bet (lol), I'd already discovered early early versions of
>> Netscape by the time I got Procomm Plus and never looked into it very
>> much. Except I sort of recall it being command line based. Kind of
>> reminds me of not too long ago I had an email server running Fedora. I
>> could send emails from the command line. Couldn't get much more basic
>> than that, so to speak.
>
> From a cached Google search:
> ====
> PROCOMM is a public domain communications package written and
> distributed by PTL Software Systems. Occasionally, a public domain
> software package becomes available that outshines most commercial
> software products. PROCOMM is definitely one of these products.
> The authors of PROCOMM suggest that users who find this software
> useful, give their support with a $25 donation.
>
> PROCOMM will run on an IBM PC, XT, AT or close compatible with
> either an RGB color, composite or monochrome display. I have
> personally used PROCOMM with an IBM PC, XT, AT, Zenith 150,
> Olivetti PC and a COMPAQ. PROCOMM will not run on a Zenith 120.
> ====
>
> Google for procomm dos

Err... no, I've got other plans. But thanks.

Rôgêr wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Rôgêr wrote:
>>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>> Luke O'Malley used:
>>>>
>>>> X-Newsreader: Procomm Plus
>>>>
>>>> There's something you don't see often.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Isn't that something they used to hand out with modems?
>>
>> I'm pretty sure it does hark back to at least the early 1990s.
>>
>> <wikiness>
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasto...ologies%2C_Inc.
>
> No article by that name, but never mind. If I remember right, and that's

I just pasted that link into a different browser, and it, too, displayed
the page fine.

> a sure bet (lol), I'd already discovered early early versions of
> Netscape by the time I got Procomm Plus and never looked into it very
> much. Except I sort of recall it being command line based. Kind of
> reminds me of not too long ago I had an email server running Fedora. I
> could send emails from the command line. Couldn't get much more basic
> than that, so to speak.



My latest project as been setting up two news servers here. Leafnode for
this Linux box and Hamster on an XP laptop. Got 'em both running
yesterday and today.


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