If the modem is doing NAT then it is probably also blocking ftp
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From: Rob Hardowa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: Find IP for DSL
> That's also something I'd had real troubles with. The modem I have is the
> alcatel speed touch home. I've downloaded both the users manual and
> advanced manual from their site and just cannot get that thing to use the
> web or telnet interface. It has a default address of 10.0.0.138 and no
> matter what I try I can't seem to get in from either linux or win.
>
> Now, when I try the snmpwalk using an address on our network, like our
> server's dns address, i get the thing spewing out addresses for 10 mins
> before I sigint it. If I try any address (from top of my head) other than
> that, including the private ip to my modem, it tells me it's unreachable.
> Maybe I'm missing the mark on this one as I'm not at all familiar with
> most of this. But then again, it seems like only Gordon has caught on to
> what's been going on here so far.
>
> The ONLY thing that has worked in the past has been a connection to an
> echo server for speakfreely which did return my ip to the opposite user.
> There used to be a dynip site on the net that worked for me for about 2
> weeks and since then it reports everyone on our network with the same ip.
>
> So anyway, if you could give me a hand with the snmpwalk thing. The
> network i'm on is prefixed with 142.165.**.** and my private ip is
> 10.10.**.** and the manufacturers of the modem claim it is supposed to be
> on 10.0.0.138 but I can't connect to it, even after hardware reseting it.
> Any ideas??
>
>
>
> On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> > Same as with ifconfig, the kernel only knows its local IP. If you're
> > behind a DSL modem that does NAT, your machine has _NO_ way of knowing
the
> > public IP from local information. You MUST query the modem for the
> > IP. Some modems have a telnet server (like the Cisco's), most do SNMP,
> > some have HTTP interfaces. The information's gotta come out of one of
> > those.
> >
> > MSG
> >
>
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