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Re: PHP socket and NAT [message #177140 is a reply to message #177138] Thu, 23 February 2012 14:25 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Captain Paralytic is currently offline  Captain Paralytic
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On Feb 23, 1:53 pm, The Natural Philosopher <t...@invalid.invalid>
wrote:
> Captain Paralytic wrote:
>> On Feb 23, 1:09 pm, "sl@exabyte" <sb5...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I'm assuming you're talking about talking to two people on a remote
>>>> LAN, and that LAN uses NAT to connect to the internet.
>>>> The first question is - who's connecting to whom?
>>>> If the remote systems are connecting to you, then there's no problem.
>>>> However, if you are trying to connect to them, there's a lot more work
>>>> involved.  The router must be set up with port forwarding and you have
>>>> to connect to the correct port to forward to the proper machine.
>>>> You can find more information in a TCP/IP newsgroup.
>>> I am thinking of the scenario where I am talking to 2 persons via the
>>> internet, and these 2 persons are in the same LAN, something like chatting.
>>> So the problem in my mind is that these 2 persons have the same IP.
>> No they don't, the local network will not allow it. They will have
>> different IP addresses.
>
> They do as far as the outside world is concerned.
But that is as far as the outside world is concerned. They will still
not have the same IP addresses.

> And the network doesn't *disallow* it inside the NAT area either, it
> simply stops things working for those two machines :-)
The local network will not allow 2 machines with the same IP address
to function on it (communication wise)
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