Question: USWest DSL

[Blake B.]

Your ip address is that which is assigned to your router.  A quick way to
find out is to log on to IRC and do a: /dns <nickname>.  It'll tell you what
your IP is, I'm sure there's a much more conventional way to do this, but
it's always been a quick way for me to find out.

* Blake


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian M Catchen" <julian@catchen.org>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 10:17 PM
Subject: Question: USWest DSL


> Hello Everyone-
>
> I recently got the ADSL service from USWest.  I am running it through a
Cisco
> 675 router/modem and have it up and running in SuSE linux with Dhclient.
>
> Although its working, I am not quite sure why it is. I was hoping someone
on
> the list could shed some light on the subject of how this works.
>
> My if config output looks like this:
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:8C:E8:4F:9D
>           inet addr:10.0.0.2  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:1000 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:350 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           Interrupt:7 Base address:0x300
>
> As you can see, it lists my IP as a dummy address (10.0.0.2).  When I do a
> traceroute to any other machine I get output like this:
>
>         traceroute to 128.118.25.3 (128.118.25.3), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets
>         1  10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1)  1 ms  1 ms  1 ms
>         2  * * *
>         3  * * *
>         ...
>
> It never finds the machine (even though I can get to it with ping or
through
> the web).  So, what is my IP address?  How am I connected to the network?
>
> Finally, it appears that dhclient is trying to renew its lease every 80
> seconds.  Although in the dhclient config file I have it set to renew
every 24
> hours (84600 seconds.)  I know this because my /var/log/messages file is
filled
> with this:
>
>     Aug  6 22:13:46 topeka dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.0.0.1 port
67
>     Aug  6 22:13:46 topeka dhclient: DHCPACK from 10.0.0.1
>     Aug  6 22:13:46 topeka dhclient: bound to 10.0.0.2 -- renewal in 80
seconds.
>
> Does anyone know why this is happening.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> julian
>
>
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