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Old 05-29-2002, 02:58 PM   #1 (permalink)
Armadel
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How does this work ?

Could someone explain to me how this works.

I have 2 PCs at home connected to a linksys router, which is connected to a cable modem.

The I/P addresses of the PCs are 192.168.2.1 and 192.168.2.2, and the I/P address of the cable modem is something like
24.xx.yy.zz. I know that the address get translated when going out but how does it work with incoming.

So my question is, how does the router keep the incoming packets straight ?
For the sake of illustration say that one PC is doing Google searches and one is playing Everquest.
The packets coming back will need to be routed to the correct PC. We can't have Google searches
popping up in the middle of a dungeon raid, now can we .

thanks

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