[Opensim-users] NAT & Corporate Firewall

[Mike Chase]

On 03/30/2011 12:16 PM, Edmund Edgar wrote:
> This probably won't help Fleep, but does anyone know what this
> broken-Englished sentence on the wiki is supposed to say?
>
> # Internal IP address - This should always be 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0 means
> "listen for connections on any interface", basically a wildcard) if
> you want to access this server from the internet or another server on
> your internal network, this should be the IP address assigned to the
> OpenSim Server.
>
> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Configuration
>
On a computer that has multiple "nics" (virtual or otherwise) 0.0.0.0 
binds to all of the nics (i.e traffic can come in any of the nics) 
rather than a specific IP address which is bound to a specific nic.

I cant say why the wildcard address wouldn't work externally (the second 
half of the paragraph).  I havent looked that closely at the connection 
code.

Mike