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I bet your ISP is doing some NAT themselves. I know the local telco's DSL here does
that. In fact, they use some "clever" tricks to look for the web-side's IP address,
and change it into the IP they give your machine. Drove me nuts for a bit until I
figured out what they were doing.
Bob
Matthijs van der Meer wrote:
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> I have an IP-masquerading server MASQing two machines which can browse the internet,
>etc. everything looks fine for daily use.
>
> However, somehow the external IP-address of the MASQed machines seems to be
>different from the external IP-address of the server. This shows, for example, when
>subscribing to this mailing list from a MASQed machine: 'message sent from
>XXX.XXX.XXX.2' whereas ifconfig on the server reveals that its IP is really
>XXX.XXX.XXX.173.
>
> Additionally, the MASQ'ed machines can ping any external IP, EXCEPT the server's
>XXX.XXX.XXX.173 IP.
>
> I'm dumbfounded as to what causes this (after all, MASQing seems to be working
>perfectly!) or what output is needed for diagnosis - any pointers appreciated!
>
> Matthijs van der Meer
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