PE=Help Again/Question

[Valkyri001]

:) I'm betting this is really basic but, humor me. Why don't I see my address in the Local or Remote address columns?

[Pilli]

Hi Valkyri001,I assume you mean you IP address? Well you are not remote so normally your own PC will be seen as Loal Port: XXXX LocalHost & Remote port as: 0 Remote Address: LocalHost or *.*.*.*. which is your own machine.
If you are using a network through a router you will see something like:
Generic Host Processes: LoclHost, Port Number remot address 192.168.1.1 Potrumber

HTH Pilli

[Valkyri001]

;) Yes! In the Help tab, there is a link to ID my address. This I assume is the "static" address that is me on the internet? But PE does not show me this same address. Why is that? Am I looking in the wrong place or at the wrong thing. I don't even get that address when I use ipconfig.

[Pilli]

Hi Valkyri001, -{ Quote: "n the Help tab, there is a link to ID my address" }-
In the Help Tab?
Have you got Netstat hidden by the way? - Settings - Hide netstat sockets

[Valkyri001]

:D Ok! guess I'm not saying this right.
;) In Help, I clicked Index, then under the content tab I read down to Beginners. It talks about my IP address. There is a link there that gives me an address that I'm assuming is supposed to be my computer. Is it just a factitious number or example?
:)

[Pilli]

It is just an example.
You should see your IP address, when you are connected to the internet by Start - cmd - return (this opens the command console in W2K XP)then typing ipconfig /all press return at the command prompt.

HTHPilli

[Valkyri001]

;) That certainly explains that. Just one more quick one Pilli. When I see asterisks in the columns, what does that mean?
Ie: ***.*.*.** ???
And Many Thanks for your Help!!! ;D

[Pilli]

Yes I can or rather Jason has, here is his reply to an earlier question about this

port explorer 0.0.0.0 and *.*.*.* ?

UDP sockets often show the remote as *.*.*.* simply because UDP sockets cannot be "connected" to a remote IP address, rather they just send packets to a remote IP address.

Port Explorer shows the LAST IP address data was sent to on a UDP socket for some of the sockets it can display it for, but it cannot display this information for the netstat based sockets which is why you see *.*.*.* .

[Valkyri001]

;) Thank You!!