PE=Help Again/Question

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

 

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

 

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.

 

Hi Valkyri001,

In the Help Tab?
Have you got Netstat hidden by the way? - Settings - Hide netstat sockets

 

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?

 

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

 

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!!!

 

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 *.*.*.* .

 

Thank You!!