IT Anon here. I can break this down for you.
>>910870>I'm assuming log messages saying external IPs were attempting to connect to your router's TCP ports without permission? You looked up the IPs themselves (using utrace/whatismyipaddress/some online shit to see the originating ISP)?He's asking, basically, if you've looked at whatever device's logs that said you had a connection to your computer, and if you've confirmed if it was "External" or "Internal".
I'll skip over the major lesson, but basically IP addresses, what your computer is assigned in order to use the internet, have "External" and "Internal" addresses. One faces into your home, one is facing outwards into your home. The internal address, also known as "private" IP address, should only show up from within your own home. The internal IP addresses always start with these:
10.x.x.x
172.16.x.x
192.168.x.x
If the address in the log does not look similar to that, then that probably means it came from outside the house.
If you want a quick example of how to look at this, run "ipconfig /all" on your computer, and it should give you a private IP address your computer was assigned.
More to come in a moment.
