Problems with FTP and Ip address duplicate problem

message from on 12 Jun 2004

Hello everyone,

I am trying to serve as an ftp server to share files with some of my
friends. Nothing that I have tried works. I even shut off my firewalls and
still no good. I have a dsl connection, to a hub and splitting to my 2
computers. A good router should be here any day! Why do both of my
computers have the same ip address on the net?
I know that's probably what's messing things up. I do not have these 2
computers networked together. I went to whatismyip.com and both pc's are
the same..why?
When I use Serv-u ftp i get this error when starting my server:
(SERVER IS NOT LISTENING ON IP 12.180.99.xxx: Trying to use non-existent IP
address?)

I just want to start a server and share some apps w/ ease if that's possible
with my setup lol

Thanks in advance and sorry for the LONG post,
brad

David Candy replied to on 13 Jun 2004

You have more configuration you haven't told us about. But to the =
external world your ISP assigns an ISP address to your network. Whatever =
that part of your network is (and it's not a hub) assigns addresses to =
the computers. You need something to tell whatever that thing is to =
forward FTP request to the computer's IP that is the server.

Perhaps employ a network engineer.

replied to David Candy on 12 Jun 2004

when i do a ipconfig at the cmd prompt i get
ip address 10.0.0.3
subnet 255.0.0.0
gateway 10.0.0.2

in IE i type in 10.0.0.2 to access the dsl modem
and when i goto www.whatismyip.com i get a 12.180.99.xxx address
does this help?

"David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:eSusp9NUEHA.3664@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
You have more configuration you haven't told us about. But to the external
world your ISP assigns an ISP address to your network. Whatever that part of
your network is (and it's not a hub) assigns addresses to the computers. You
need something to tell whatever that thing is to forward FTP request to the
computer's IP that is the server.

Perhaps employ a network engineer.

replied to on 12 Jun 2004

i get the SAME results on both of my pc's

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