Connecting when both routers are at 192.168.2.1 ?

[Allyn Baskerville]

There are a couple things wrong here. First, is that you can't connect to 192.168.2.1 over the Internet, as this is a private IP and 
isn't routed. You have to use the public IP address on the external interface of the router, and not the internal IP address of the 
system (assuming they are not the same). Some ISPs don't assign public IPs, so there won't be any way of creating an inbound 
connection without obtaining one (for a few extra bucks, I bet they will give you one).

Also, you cannot connect to another system with the same IP address (unless you do NAT along the way). What I think is happening is 
that your client is trying to connect to itself on port 5900. Also, do a "netstat -at" and see if this is actually 5900 or another 
port like 5901.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Clark" <sdclark "at" cnrgroup.com>
To: <vnc-list "at" realvnc.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: Connecting when both routers are at 192.168.2.1 ?


> When connecting from Work to Home, you specify the Home WAN IP
> When connecting from Home to Work, you specify the Work WAN IP
> These WAN addresses may or may not be static.
> You might want to look into DynDNS.org or equivelant.
>
> Regards,
> Steven
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Murray" <jm "at" homemail.com>
> To: <vnc-list "at" realvnc.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 3:42 PM
> Subject: Connecting when both routers are at 192.168.2.1 ?
>
>
>> HOME PC : WinXP with Belkin Router LAN - default gateway 192.168.2.1
>> WORK PC : WinXP with Microsoft Router LAN - default gateway 192.168.2.1
>>
>> Each router has it's firewall enabled.  I've opened up 5900 port for
>> inbound/outbound on each.
>>
>> I know the specific IPs of my two PCs, but from what I read I'm supposed
> to
>> try to connect to the other "router" IP address (192.168.2.1) -- and it
>> forwards to the PC that I specify in the router config.  (which I figured
>> out how to do on one, but not he other yet).
>>
>> I've set up the VNC Server and did an allow on the range.  Trying to
> connect
>> and I get the 100600 error message.
>>
>> Is the problem that both of my routers have the exact same IP ?  If so,
> how
>> do I change it?
>>
>>
>> John
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