Possibly your system was installed or cloned using PartedMagic, and that
left an entry in
/etc/ethers
mapping your default nic to the name 'PartedMagic'?
K
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On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:23 AM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/3/2014 3:09 PM, g wrote:
>
>> On 12/03/2014 04:15 PM, zep wrote:
>>
>>> >
>>>
>>>> >>>oh. the ARP packet suggests that MAC address is 192.168.1.144
>>>>>
>>>> >>that is how i see it.
>>>> >>
>>>>
>>> >is that 1.144 IP address in use by the machine you ran the lspci
>>> >from?
>>>
>> somewhere. but i know not where.
>>
>> http://www.whoami.it/home/ shows me to be;
>> adsl-184-41-28-86.mem.bellsouth.net
>> for the hell of it, i pulled and reconnected DSL line, now, i am
>> adsl-184-41-28-44.mem.bellsouth.net
>>
>> which is now confusing me more because the 1.144 address is in;
>>
>> ~]$ ifconfig
>> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:FE:8F:8F:23
>> inet addr:192.168.1.144 Bcast:192.168.1.255 \
>> Mask:255.255.255.0
>> inet6 addr: fe80::20f:feff:fe8f:8f23/64 Scope:Link
>>
>
> your ROUTER gets the internet IP on its WAN side (184.41.28.86 or
> whatever), and your LAN uses 192.168.1.xxx, the system you ran ifconfig on
> there has 192.168.1.144. the router 'translates' your private LAN
> addresses to the public internet address, this process is often called NAT
> (Network Address Translation), or Masquerade.
>
> so. Wireshark, for unknown reasons, thinks your system is 'PartedMagic'.
> I have no idea why.
>
> so... 'PartedMagic' is a red herring. whats the ACTUAL problem here
> we're trying to solve?
>
>
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