on 8/16/01 4:25 PM, The Poulins at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In Amber's case with the Linux server, I'd wager that the server is acting
> precisely as a router and perhaps even has a software firewall. It
> possesses a "168" address for the outside world, whether a static address or
> a dynamic one assigned by the ISP. And it, in turn, assigns dynamic "192"
> addresses to the other computers in the building, or someone has tediously
> assigned status "192" addresses to each computer. Another possibility is
> that Amber's ISP has assigned separate "168" addresses for each computer.
> One could check the TCP/IP control panel of each computer to investigate
> this.
Actually, the Linux server is running IP Masquerading, and it itself has a
static IP address. All the ISP sees when it looks at our connection is the
one IP address. The other computers are routed through the Linux server
(behind a firewall in a way, I guess) with 192.168 IP addresses (yes, I
tedioudly assigned them to each computer) :)
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