Send/Receive Bytes using TCP Sockets over internet (possibly using static IP)

Question

I got success in sending/receiving data using TCP Sockets over LAN but I want to accomplish the same over the internet. I asked some of my friends and got the idea of using static IP. I was wondering how can I use that static IP? I mean do I need to configure port setting on the host or what?

Below is the sample code I want to use just to give you an idea:

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Text;

class MainClass
{
   public static void Main()
   {
      IPEndPoint ip = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any,9999);
      Socket socket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork,SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);

      socket.Bind(ip);
      socket.Listen(10);
      Console.WriteLine("Waiting for a client...");
      Socket client = socket.Accept();
      IPEndPoint clientep =(IPEndPoint)client.RemoteEndPoint;
      Console.WriteLine("Connected with {0} at port {1}",clientep.Address, clientep.Port);

      string welcome = "Welcome";
      byte[] data = new byte[1024];
      data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(welcome);
      client.Send(data, data.Length,SocketFlags.None);

      Console.WriteLine("Disconnected from {0}",clientep.Address);
      client.Close();
      socket.Close();
   }
}

Solution

Yes, we need configure the port and IP so that we can communicate between two servers. I have done a VPN configuration for this. Please make sure you are able to conneect to that system from where you are trying to run this code. you can run ipconfig/netstat command from command prompt to test this.

Please do this first and make sure both systems are able to talk each other and then please try to run this code. After that still you face the problem, please feel free to contact me.

Comments

[Nikunj Patel]

Basically, I want to accomplish Send/Receive bytes over the internet using TCP Sockets so I was looking for the information how static IP can be used in here and what are the settings I need to do for specifying port if any. The same thing we do only specify the IP for LAN; what are the settings to do using static IP in TCP Sockets?