On 06/10/2007, a.padilla  wrote:

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> this is a small private I'm doing between to computers for

> educational purposes.  the server is also connected to a dhcp

> network.  that's why the internal interface has a private IP.

I'm not surprised your internal NIC has a private IP.

I'm surprised your external NIC has one too.
> I'm trying to work with what's available to me.

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> On Oct 5, 2007, at 3:10 PM, ropers wrote:

>

> > On 05/10/2007, a.padilla  wrote:

> >> ifconfig:

> >>

> >> (...)

> >> rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500

> >>         lladdr 00:18:4d:ea:33:0a

> >>         groups: egress

> >>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)

> >>         status: active

> >>         inet6 fe80::218:4dff:feea:330a%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1

> >>         inet 192.168.0.111 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255

> >> dc0: flags=8843 mtu 1500

> >>         lladdr 00:14:bf:53:1e:fe

> >>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)

> >>         status: active

> >>         inet6 fe80::214:bfff:fe53:1efe%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2

> >>         inet 10.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.0

> >

> > I need to do a double-take on the above: Why do both of your NICs have

> > private IPs? Is your ISP doing NAT as well and do they only give you

> > private IPs or what's the story?

>

>

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