-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Greg, My firewall script wants what it calls the IP address of my DHCP server. That must not be what ifconfig reports, right? But I grabbed that IP address from ifconfig and plugged it into the firewall script, and it works fine. My ISP is "mhcable.com" -- is it their IP address that the firewall wants when it asks for the IP address of my dhcp server? I am closing in on it, but not quite there yet. Chuck On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi Chuck. > > The inet addr is your ip address. Remember that ppp0 is a point to > point interface, which means that even though you have an ip address > visible to the world assigned by the ppp gateway, you are actually > connecting from a separate private address assigned to you by the > gateway, to an interface address on that gateway which is also > private. Thus a point to point connection. > > With eth0, you don't have a point to point connection, but you do have > an ethernet connection which means your inet addr is the address the > rest of the world knows you by, and there are no intermediate > addresses between you and your isp like you have with ppp. > > Hope that helped, and that it wasn't too confusing. > > Greg > > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:12:30PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi people, > > > > I am confused (for a change?) > > > > My cable modem connection works like a charm, so maybe I should > > leave it alone. But I am confused about my IP address and that of > > the host to which I am connecting. > > > > With the ppp0 interface, I can find both the remote and the local > > IP addresses, but with the eth0 interface, ifconfig reports only > > one address, which it calls "inet addr:". Is that me? Or is it my > > ISP? I have assumed it is my ISP, and have used it as such in my > > firewall script, which is working great. But then what is my own > > IP address, the one that used to be called a local IP address > > with ppp0? > > > > I am seeing weird entries in my firewall log with destination > > addresses matching what ifconfig calls the "inet addr:" and I am > > not sure if that is my address, or my ISP's? > > > > Any advice will be handsomely rewarded. > > > > Chuck > > > > > > - -- > > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (82% of Full) > > In a world without Fences or Walls no one needs Windows or Gates. > > My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iQCVAwUBQAH0hzVdG8M9x9tGAQL4lwP9HDWZcZdnYvVlAwPMKz+mWvCg/bIYpto4 > > FfU28E/W+LlUYsHmIuDnVTJOp6XV2EHw7PRpq5hQ8U3u63Ke0bFc5QeyVDBYmsDS > > VF52c57ee5uxnsY+gkRnYgE7a4mR4Yz8JZqt629S1C6hgyY0PBLygTZiHlZ8QGwS > > VLiZe37Ttdk= > > =Bc+X > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (81% of Full) In a world without Fences or Walls no one needs Windows or Gates. My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQAH4ujVdG8M9x9tGAQLqEAQA3Oo7d6aETXqTDa4oJ7S4wzgu8w5Qxjog tUIiDC69lhSqKWz04AXvZqeXlD7yJo91zKl146y8uqPwgFeHco0Zes6iMw1bG5Pi JtUwVx8cmK4+x0NKK3v+NuQJfplp+BpMcyEWcXVojXqVs04wybnsm4ctfw8Z33cD Sd9n5F9EYXY= =gk9H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
