Your ip address is that which is assigned to your router. A quick way to find out is to log on to IRC and do a: /dns . It'll tell you what your IP is, I'm sure there's a much more conventional way to do this, but it's always been a quick way for me to find out. * Blake ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julian M Catchen" To: Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 10:17 PM Subject: Question: USWest DSL > Hello Everyone- > > I recently got the ADSL service from USWest. I am running it through a Cisco > 675 router/modem and have it up and running in SuSE linux with Dhclient. > > Although its working, I am not quite sure why it is. I was hoping someone on > the list could shed some light on the subject of how this works. > > My if config output looks like this: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:8C:E8:4F:9D > inet addr:10.0.0.2 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:1000 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:350 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > Interrupt:7 Base address:0x300 > > As you can see, it lists my IP as a dummy address (10.0.0.2). When I do a > traceroute to any other machine I get output like this: > > traceroute to 128.118.25.3 (128.118.25.3), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets > 1 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms > 2 * * * > 3 * * * > ... > > It never finds the machine (even though I can get to it with ping or through > the web). So, what is my IP address? How am I connected to the network? > > Finally, it appears that dhclient is trying to renew its lease every 80 > seconds. Although in the dhclient config file I have it set to renew every 24 > hours (84600 seconds.) I know this because my /var/log/messages file is filled > with this: > > Aug 6 22:13:46 topeka dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.0.0.1 port 67 > Aug 6 22:13:46 topeka dhclient: DHCPACK from 10.0.0.1 > Aug 6 22:13:46 topeka dhclient: bound to 10.0.0.2 -- renewal in 80 seconds. > > Does anyone know why this is happening. > > Thanks in advance... > > julian > > > --------------------------------------------- > j. m. c a t c h e n - p h x, a z > j u l i a n a t c a t c h e n d o t o r g > *h t t p : / / w w w . c a t c h e n . o r g* > d a t e: 06-Aug-2000 t i m e: 22:08:41 > --------------------------------------------- > > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss