Quote from: bsdaiwa on August 05, 2012, 07:38:14 PM
Quote from: Ostracus on August 05, 2012, 07:04:38 PM
It does under status-->system status---WAN status.
That gives you the LAN IP address assigned by the local router (in spite of what the OBi label is),
You are asking for your Internet address; that's not the same thing as a WAN address.
The WAN address is the IP name of the Obi in the containing environment. In your case that is your LAN, in my case because my Obi is connected directly to my ISP that happens to be the same as my Internet address (jbowler.com).
If you want to know your internet address you either have to go to the thing that connects you to the internet (my Obi, your router or your modem depending on your network) or you have to ask someone on the outside, for example
http://whatismyipaddress.com/.In your case that IP address does *not* connect to your Obi (try it ;-). Instead it connects to your router; your router can probably be configured to arrange to connect to your Obi, but that's not the same thing. (It's like if you asked me for my telephone number and I gave you my mother's; she'll relay a message but it's not the same as talking to me directly, for one thing it's far more enjoyable.)
The Obi has to tell you its IP address because that is what you need to connect to it from the outside. So if you go to
www.obiconnect.com from the 202 LAN port you can discover what IP address it has on the WAN port (alternatively you can use the voice attendent *** stuff; it's the same number.) Since this is the only IP address it has and since it doesn't know your internet IP (it can find it, but so can you) this is what it needs to report.
John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org>
