QUOTE(aniketvb @ Jun 8 2006, 06:35 PM) [snapback]53608[/snapback]
your computer only . In SIFY , the dynamic IP address belongs to the Gateway and _not_ _ your_ _computer_ . So anyone else on the same LAN using same Gateway also gets the same Global IP address. So its not a unique public IP address. Its just like your plain old Internet Connection Sharing kinda thing.
The SAM server thing is just a Database Thing AFAIK, used to monitor accounts and store account info.
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No, it's not the gateway IP address, and computers on the network don't get the same IP address. They provide a unique public IP address to you at every login, just like with dial-up.
And the SAM system (not just the auth server) is not just a database that does some elementary account management. It does a whole lot of other things as well, like IP address assignment, bandwidth allocation on login, etc.
yakity yakity yak...and the outcome? No Sify connections cannot be used to host webservers![/b]
Wrong, you can most definitely use your public IP for your webserver. Check out this site:
http://siddhesh.no-ip.info
I host this site on one of my systems at home. There are free services like No-IP, DynDns, etc. that detect your public IP and you can assign a subdomain name (siddhesh.no-ip.info in my case) to redirect to your computer. They also provide programs that run periodically to update the public IP address on their servers so that the connection doesn't fail.
But do note that they no longer forward traffic on port 80. You'll have to host the site on another port. I host mine on 9880.
Siddhesh