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Venture
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To answer your first post about the 71 number and the 192 number- - If you have a router, you will have two IP addresses you need to know about:
- the first one is the one that identifies your router/network to the outside world. That typically comes in through your router, and is probably the 71xxx number that you mentioned. Really, it is your router that has that IP address.
- Then, you have an INTERNAL IP address on every machine on your network. It is your router that assigns those addresses to the machines on your network. Those internal addresses typically look something like 192.168.1.1 (Linksys routers, for example; others may be slightly different). For example, you might have 3 computers designated by your router as 192.168.1.101; 192.168.1.102; and 192.168.1.103, and a networked XBox as 192.168.1.104. The outside world never sees these addresses.
When you host, the outside world sees your external IP address (the first one above; for you, probably the one starting with 71). The outside world has no idea what is behind your router on your internal network (i.e. it doesn't know how many computers you have, for example). Traffic coming from the outside gets to your router, and normally doesn't know where to go from there (and your router normally won't let it go any further). That is why you need to set up your router to tell it that NWN traffic should go to a certain machine on your internal network. That is what all the port forwarding stuff mentioned in earlier posts does - NWN server traffic, for example, uses port 5121 by default. With port forwarding, you are telling your router that when outside NWN traffic comes to port 5121, it should be sent to the right computer.
I have a laptop that I keep set to automatically get an IP address from my router (an INTERNAL address), since I bounce between a few different networks when I travel. When I play, I spend a minute to fire up the dedicated server, and see what address the laptop has been assigned. I then open up my router configuration, and change it if need to be to forward NWN2 server traffic to the laptop, as I use that as my server machine.
Clear as mud, right?
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No... That's good.
To determine your real IP, the one that the outside world sees, just go to http://www.whatismyip.com .
To determine your network IP go to Start>Run
Type "cmd" and click "OK"
When the command prompt comes up type in "ipconfig". Your network IP is the one under "IP Address".
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If I had to take a guess, I'd say that your firewall was interfering. If it is a software firewall, you will need to configure it to allow NWN traffic.
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If you're using WindowsXP Service Pack 2, remember that it turns on the internal firewall by default. If you're using another software firewall, turn XP's off.
Start->Control Panel->Security Center->Windows Firewall.
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