Roaring pengiun (fwd)

[alfred]

I always thought that it was safer (and just as effective) to disable 
the ip addr for the external (to ADSL modem) ip addr, it makes it that 
much harder to get past the firewall then.
And Tim, my Alcatel Speedtouch home does have the 10.0.0.138 interface 
on it, complete with the lovely webserver and everything ;)

Mark Purcell wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 11:51:01PM +1000, Mark Hummel wrote:
> 
>>>10.0.0.138
>>>
>>>
>>Indeed, this is one of the addresses I tried. No dice. No ticky- no
>>laundree. 
>>
> 
> You need to ensure that your ethernet port is also on the same subnet
> so the routing can go direct.
> 
> Since you aren't getting online anyway, just set 
> 
> 	ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1
> 
> and then try to `ping 10.0.0.138`.
> 
> If that fails then you aren't talking to your ADSL modem correctly
> and it is either a cabling or hardware problem.
> 
> Mark
> 
> PS.  For those who are online and have aliases available the best
> was to enable the interface is:
> 
> 	ifconfig eth0:1 10.0.0.1
> 


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Alfred Reynolds
alfred at mazuma.net.au