The route that Ping Plotter shows is the OUTBOUND route. Your router's IP address isn't shown in this route list because most home wan/lan routers actually have multiple IP addresses - and the side you address from home isn't the same as the IP you're looking for.<br><br>Let's use an example. Let's say that your router at home is a NATting DHCP router that issues 10.0.0.x IP addresses to your home LAN. Now this router *also* has another IP address - the one issued by your ISP. This is on the WAN side of the router (while the 10.0.0.1 address is on the LAN side). When you trace out, hop 1 is your router - and you'll see 10.0.0.1 there. Now, the *next* hop is actually the gateway that the router goes through, not the actually router's issued IP address. The x.y.z.95, you'll never see because this address is never addressed from your side (your router passes the packets in from the 10.0.0.1 address, and then (like a hose) pushes it out the IP address that your ISP issued to you (x.y.z.95)). Because you only see one end (the end closest to you), you'll only see 10.0.0.1 and then x.y.z.1 (which is the gateway that the DHPC server at your ISP issued to your router). There's really no way you can see the IP address the ISP issued to you via trace route, unfortunately.<br><br>If you want to get your router's IP address, there are several ways that aren't terribly difficult. The IP addresses the outside hosts see you at is your ISP issued DNS address. To see this address, just hook up to a page that shows your IP address (this has to be generated on the server, though). I did a quick 15 second web search and got a link that tells you how in both .asp, or perlscript: <A HREF="http://www.chami.com/tips/internet/041498I.html" target="_new">http://www.chami.com/tips/internet/041498I.html</A> - look at the bottom of the page for perlscript of asp code you can put on a server of your own. Alternately, you can use a page that someone else has published - I use DNS wiz for my DNS services, and they have a page that shows your current IP address: <A HREF="http://www.dnswiz.com/dynping.asp" target="_new">http://www.dnswiz.com/dynping.asp</A>.<br><br>Hopefully, that will get you going in the right direction. Ping Plotter looks at things from your side of things - while what you're looking to do is look at the *other* side of things (from the outside in).<br><br>Good luck!<br><br>
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