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[rlp2955]

Hi all,
    I have a home desktop, home laptop, and work laptop that I use.  I have Ultra VNC setup on my work laptop that allows me to remote into that machine when I am traveling for work.  I have always been able to use the external IP address (not private) to login into the machine with no problem.  This week, for some reason, I can no longer do that.  When I started doing some discovery, I noticed that when I have all 3 machines booted up at home that the exact same external IP address is assigned to all 3 machines.  The internal IP addresses are all different as they should be.

Shouldn't each machine have a seperate external IP address assigned as well?  Or is this working the way it should?  I didn't change any setting on my router or DSL model.  But I think the conflict that VNC is having on my work laptop is that it has the exact same IP as the destination computer and it fails.  I can remote in if I use the private IP address (192.168.x.x) just fine.  Thoughts?

[FurryNutz]

The external or public IP address is what is assigned to the WAN side of the router which gets translated NAT down to the private IP address on the LAN side. Yes the router and External IP address is correct for all devices as this is how your address is tracked on the Internet. Something has changed I presume possibly on the devices or in the application and might have caused a change.

It's recommended to set up application port forwarding on the router in this case as this will tell the router to allow a remote connection from the external IP address using a specified port, thru the router to a specified IP address on the LAN side, point it to the devices IP address that your trying to connect to at home.