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Old 09-10-2007, 07:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Skillz View Post
Actually that's not his cable modem IP. It has a real IP. Normally two. A WAN side and a LAN side. The LAN side in most cases are 192.168.x.x. 127.0.0.0 is your computer's IP address, regardless. It's the "localhost".
Actually, it doesn't end in zero and it's called a loopback address.

This address is only accessible locally, not over the lan/wan.
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