Question: USWest DSL

Sun, 06 Aug 2000 22:17:12 -0700 (MST)

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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