ip address query

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Mon, October 31, 2011 12:36, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 11:24 +0000, Steve Flynn wrote:
>> On 31 October 2011 06:57, Linux Tyro <ubuntu.bkn1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>
>> Think of it as your WAN address is your real postal address - 10 Front
>> Street, whereas your internal 192.168. addresses are the various rooms
>> in your house. Anyone who wants to come in to your house needs your
>> external address, but once they are in they can visit any room. Your
>> router acts as your front door.
>>
>> That's a fairly weak analogy but it'll suffice...
>>
>
> To get to the correct room from outside, though, you'll need to set up
> port forwarding on the router.

To stay with the analogy, the router would be the mail room of your office
building.