When I looked at my router, I seen that it was a 10.x IP. When I signed up, they gave me a new 206 ip to use. Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~ website: http://tysplace.shaned.net msn: compgeek134 at hotmail.com aim: st8amnd2005 skype: st8amnd127 moo coder/wizard and administrator ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 6:46 PM Subject: Re: iptables questions > When the tech support guys at Tyler's ISP told him he had a "private" > IP, they probably meant they're blocking incoming connections. He had > to pay $5 extra to get them to punch a hole in their firewall. Lots of > ISPs block some ports so you can't set up your own smtp server, for > example. Maybe Tyler's ISP blocks all incoming connections by default > and allows only outgoing and existing connections. > > I can't believe an ISP would hand out 10.0.0/24 addresses. Hand out > private IP addresses and do NAT for every customer? Impossible (I > think). It may even be illegal. > > More likely, they have a range of IP addresses that are not blocked by > their firewall. They had to reassign him one from that range. That's > what cost $5. I think "private" is marketing-speak for "blocked". > > Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > > + > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:20:19PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote: > >> Um... I called the ISP, and had to go up to the manager, because no one > >> else woudl tell me what was going on. It turned out that it **wasn't** the > >> modem/router, but I had a private IP. I ended up paying $5 extra a month for > >> a public. > > > > Ok, but that's one heck of a rip off if you ask me. A decent ISP will > > give you a dynamic publicly accessible IP for free, and charge you > > extra for your own public static address. For an ISP to be doing NAT > > on it's network for it's customers, and be charging to give them a > > public IP which I'm guessing is still dynamic, is a rip off. > > > > Anyway, you have 3 machines you said with internet > > connections. However, you still have one public IP address, unless you > > purchased a block of static addresses. So, my point still stands, your > > modem or router is still doing IP masquerading for you, and assigning > > an internal IP to each of your 3 machines. > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > - -- > > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > > skype: gregn1 > > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > > > - -- > > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFEtUCV7s9z/XlyUyARAmaBAJ954cyPQYqHfdAom9PZvxp61tj5UgCgtl27 > > Jf9c9b4pAzpM1UIQLByybHk= > > =4SGI > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
