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It looks to me like your trouble is occuring at the router. Many personal and dsl routers do NAT, meaning the router pretends that it is the one sending the information. Unsolicited information coming the other way is then stopped at the router. It sounds as though you are trying to get your client machine visable on the public network. To do that you will need to configure your router (assumeing that is where the problem lies). Different routers use different terms; some say "NAT", others "firewall", some will require you to set up a "bridge".
What are you attempting to do, by the way? If you need to host a service on the public internet you may just need to set up port forwarding (pin holes) on your router. That would be the prefered method.
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