VNC Mac help

[Ron West]

>  What do you mean with 'my "real" IP address? Your IP address for the
> outside world is the one of your router; surf to http://a.b.c.d/ where
> a.b.c.d is the internal (in other words, starting with '10.' or '192.168.')
> IP address of your router. If you don't know the internal IP address of your
> router, then in a terminal, type 'netstat -rn' and look at the IP address of
> 'default', that's the one. (Providing that Mac OS X behaves like Unix.)

buy "real" i mean the one that doesn't start with 192.168
i thought the real one is the one that comes up when i look at this
site - http://whatismyipaddress.com/

>  Probably, though, your mother's router is configured not to accept
> connections from the internet (for very good reasons!) and you'd have to
> open that yourself, because she won't manage from what I gather. If you do
> so, make sure that (a) you have a fixed IP address and (b) you only open
> port 5900 to that fixed IP address.

i am thinking that this is what i will have to figure out.