Your router has two interface- external and internal. Each interface has a separate I.P address. When you use 'ipconfig', the I.P address of the default gateway you see there is its I.P address for your INTERNAL network. This address is not routable on the internet. Even my router can have the same internal I.P address as your router and we'll be able to communicate.

What the world sees is the I.P address of the external interface of your router. This I.P address is your unique I.P address on the internet. It's the one that's used when some other system wants to connect to you.

So in this case set LHOST to 41.x.x.x and forward LPORT from your router to your 10.0.0.167 machine.

I don't think that your I.P address basics are weak...it's just that they aren't strong . Reading a IPv4 chapter from a good book will make your concepts clear.

another question : if i dont have access to the router and i specified port 8080

as LPORT and as LHOST i assigned my WAN external ip


now when the reverse connection back again to my router which local ip will choose to pass the traffic !!!! because i think that all Lan ips should have port 80 open and allowed for incoming traffic from outside

second question what if i opened port and forwarded it to my local ip

and i did the same port to another ip !! ?

what should be happen ?

the router will flood the frame ( broadcast ) to all local ips except the one came from and when my ip gets the frame while im at handler listener mode i will receive it ??



what do u think ??

thanks alot buddy i fully understanded

The friends computer is behind a router over which he is not having direct access (I presume). However, think about the status of his router status after all these "confused port-forwarding"