strange wan IP

[keithschm]

At home through my cable modem my wan IP is xxx.xxx.xxx.0

now most programs I type my ip into say it is not a valid IP address. I thought all IP.s went from 1 to 254. I have never seen on end in zero

SO I can not even see my home network any where.


a traceroute can see it.

PS. I hooked system directly to cable modem with no firewall at all.

 

[GrnEyedLdy]

If your IP address is masked by 24 bits in the subnet mask then xxx.xxx.xxx.0 would be invalid since the 0 is all that is left to represent the host on the xxx.xxx.xxx network and zero is not a valid host address...

Patty

 

[keithschm]

but that is my ip that my isp gives me

so what does that mean

 

[GrnEyedLdy]

When you say this is your WAN IP address, where are you getting this information?

Go to a command prompt (Start, Run, type, CMD) and then type Ipconfig /all

What do you see listed there for you IP address and subnet mask?

Patty

 

[keithschm]

it is the wan address from my isp

is I hook my system directly to the cable modem(with out the router) my ipaddress is xxx.xxx.xxx.0

if I hookup up my system through the router it is my wan ip address and it is the sam #

 

[GrnEyedLdy]

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying.
Can you;
Go to a command prompt (Start, Run, type, CMD) and then type Ipconfig /all

What is listed there? Certinally not xxx.xxx.xxx.o
It should bew something like this;

IP address 192.168.0.98
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
default gateway 192.168.0.1
DHCP server 192.168.0.1
DNS server 192.168.0.1
etc.,


Patty

 

[keithschm]

XXX.XXX.XXX.0 the Xs= #s I am just not going to show everyone my ip address

I can go winipcfg /all
and
IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.0 Xs=#s
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
default gateway XXX.XXX.XXX.254
etc.,

my question is since in most cases an IP address ending with only a 0 is not a valid IP address. I think. What can I do to access my machine remotly.