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Name: Luis
Date: August 7, 2002 at 03:50:00 Pacific
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Hey everyone, today i went to pcflank.com and done a test and noticed that my laptop's IP is the same as my PC's is this because we have a router(D-Link) and if so, if the laptop's ports are open does that mean that mine will also be, and if someone does manage to hack my laptop, does that mean that he has access to mine also, Woah this is to confusing but if someone could explain it to me maybe i will get it

Thanks



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Name: Ryback
Date: August 7, 2002 at 04:05:40 Pacific
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My guess is is that your router has some kind of NAT function. What it does is that it hides the actual IP of the computers behind it and use the IP you get from your ISP when those computers connects to the internet. If your run ifconfig/ipconfig (what ever OS you are useing) you will get the real IP address of your computer. Then you will se that the IP adress of your laptop and desktop is different, otherwise your network wouldn't work.

You can read more about NAT here:
http://searchwebmanagement.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid27_gci214107,00.html


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Response Number 2
Name: Luis
Date: August 7, 2002 at 04:29:19 Pacific
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Thanks for that info, and im running Xp Pro on the Pc and Win 95 on the Laptop


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Response Number 3
Name: shadow
Date: August 7, 2002 at 12:02:35 Pacific
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why don't you run the test from your pc?

maybe the scan is only testing the router, rather than the pc and laptop?


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Response Number 4
Name: Luis
Date: August 7, 2002 at 14:30:58 Pacific
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I have and its given me the same results


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Response Number 5
Name: chris
Date: August 8, 2002 at 03:45:55 Pacific
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Your router is NAT'ing all outbound connections to the internet. If you have two PC's with private IP addresses A and B every request passing via the router to the internet will be translated to rewrite your source address from A or B to X, this is defined within the router config. The site from which you are running the test dynamically picks up your source address as it see's it which will be X. Obviously this is the same for both PC''s.


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