I am using a Broadband Router on which multiple pcs use the same shared ip as the public ip. how can some other remote client get a specific IP address to connect to me?
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They cannot. The broadband router is the only one with a public IP address.
The usual solution to this problem is to have the router forward a specific port to one of your NAT’d internal machines.
If that’s not sufficient, you could investigate “hole punching” and STUN.