How to find out what your URL is when you have a router

[freeman]

Not sure if this is helpful or even relevant but the page:
    http://www.privacy.net/
gives one's IP addy & full URL, at the top of their page. In my case 
this show the info for the router which I am behind.

scott

scott

John Peters wrote:

>How to find out what your URL is when you have a router
>
>
>You can log on to your router by looking up the URL in the docs.
>Type the URL number in to the address line of your browser.
>No need for any WWW or HTML stuff, just the number.
>
>Look through the menus for STATUS which may be under ADVANCED SETUP
>
>There you will see all the various numbers, including what you need to use VNC
>through the router's firewall.
>
>Some routers ask for a pass word, but you can leave it blank and touch LOGIN
>and it works for me.
>
>You also have to look for  a menu item called
>NAT and then
>VIRTUAL SERVER
>
>In the Private IP column you put the last didgets of your local machine's URL
>which is the one seen when you float the mouse over the VNC icon.  This one
>works for lcal access but not thru a router.
>
>In the Private Port column you put 5900 which is from the VNC docs. Under type
>you Check TCP
>
>On the second line you put the same last 4 didgets of your local machine's URL
>but use 5500 as the Public Port.
>
>So my setup looks like this:
>
>Private IP           Private Port   Type   Public Port
>192.168.2.120        5900           TCP    5900
>138.168.2 120        5500           TCP    5500
>
>I hope this helps, and if it does send me a note
>japeters "at" pacbell.net
>
>John A. Peters
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