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Old 04-07-2004, 02:50 PM
m0oni9
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Because if you are receiving an external address from the login server, your computer will try to connect to that. When you try to connect to that external ip, your router will see that it is itself, and reroute it back locally. It will be seen as coming from that router internally. I could be wrong, but that is how I understand that it operates.