New modem and iptables...

Curtis Doty Curtis at GreenKey.net
Sun Oct 21 21:17:21 UTC 2007


10:52pm Antonio said:

> 2007/10/21, Curtis Doty <Curtis at greenkey.net>:
>> 10:29pm Antonio said:
>>
>>> But I have a question: if eth1 is defined to get IP address from
>>> network (i.e. the modem) why
>>>
>>
>> What makes you sure the modem is what gave it an address?
>>
>>         tail -n14 /var/lib/dhc*/dhclient-eth1.leases
>>
>
> tail -n14 /var/lib/dhc*/dhclient-eth1.leases
> }
> lease {
>  interface "eth1";
>  fixed-address 87.14.136.149;
>  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.255;
>  option routers 87.14.136.149;
>  option dhcp-lease-time 60;
>  option dhcp-message-type 5;
>  option domain-name-servers 62.211.69.150;
>  option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.1.1;
>  renew 0 2007/10/21 20:52:09;
>  rebind 0 2007/10/21 20:52:35;
>  expire 0 2007/10/21 20:52:43;
> }
>

Indeed. Your upstream/ISP appears to be running your service bridged 
rather than routed. I'd be more concerned about why they're only giving 
you only a 60 second lease. Have you asked them?

../C




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