Re: arptables: unable to enter address

2007-02-09 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
Aleksandar Milosevic wrote: J. Alfred Prufrock wrote: Also, I just noticed in my cable-modem box's configuration page that the WAN gateway is 24.145.134.65, which reverse dns shows to be user-0c931i1.cable.mindspring.com. Isn't it odd that my gateway is another user rather than the ISP

Re: arptables: unable to enter address, TCPDUMP

2007-02-05 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
Vijay Sankar wrote: By the way, regarding list etiquette, I am copying you because you had asked for that in an earlier message. I should not have included Darren and John, but what happened was that I did a Reply All, not noticing that you had sent the messages to those two folks as well.

Re: arptables: unable to enter address, TCPDUMP

2007-02-05 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
Darren Spruell wrote: As per above, the tcpdump output suggests a more likely misconfiguration of the cable modem rather than the BSD box. I'm starting to wonder if it's been deliberately (mis-)configured this way. Thinking to reconfigure the cable-modem box myself (as opposed to going with

Re: arptables: unable to enter address

2007-02-05 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
Also, I just noticed in my cable-modem box's configuration page that the WAN gateway is 24.145.134.65, which reverse dns shows to be user-0c931i1.cable.mindspring.com. Isn't it odd that my gateway is another user rather than the ISP? Should I be worried about all this? J

Re: arptables: unable to enter address

2007-02-05 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
Aleksandar Milosevic wrote: What does 'arp -a' and 'netstat -nr -f inet' output on rock? # arp -a chadmin (192.168.0.1) at 00:0b:06:bc:7b:0d on dc0 becket.dyndns.org (192.168.1.12) at 00:07:e9:d6:ea:fd on fxp0 ? (192.168.1.32) at 00:0c:30:00:06:09 on fxp0 # netstat -nr -f inet Routing tables

Re: arptables: unable to enter address

2007-02-04 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
John wrote: And, as far as getting the obsd box to talk to the modem was concerned, that's it! There is other stuff involved in getting the box to talk to the lan and v/v. I found it useful getting just the box to work with the modem, it's not clear in your message if that is also your

Re: arptables: unable to enter address, TCPDUMP

2007-02-04 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
Darren Spruell wrote: It's curious that the outside interface address on the cable modem is showing up for any reason on the internal network. Right, this is what first puzzled me too. You might use tcpdump or similar on your internal network to determine what kind of traffic it relates to.

Re: arptables: unable to enter address, TCPDUMP

2007-02-04 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
Vijay Sankar wrote: Possibly a silly question -- how are you connecting the cable modem to your OpenBSD server's external interface? Are they all plugged into a switch or hub or are you using a cable from the external interface directly to the cable modem? The external NIC connects directly

Re: arptables: unable to enter address, TCPDUMP

2007-02-04 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
Darren Spruell wrote: Grab that exchange again with the -n flag to tcpdump. Include the MAC address(es) of the cable modem if you can get them. Here it is: 00:14:04.475261 arp who-has 192.168.0.10 tell 24.aaa.bbb.ccc 0001 0800 0604 0001 000b 06bc 7b0e 1891

arptables: unable to enter address

2007-02-03 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
Hi guys, I recently switched ISPs, and my new ISP (Time-Warner) gave me a Motorola SBG1000 cable-modem box. My OpenBSD machine, which used to connect directly to my old ISP's servers, is now behind this box. I'm running a GENERIC 4.0 kernel which has never had any problems with my hardware.