[lug] talking to a 10.x.x.x box

[D. Stimits]

McIllece wrote:
> 
> I have a question about connecting to a friend's stand-alone machine.
> 
> He's been using Linux for about a year and recently got DSL through Qwest.
> Qwest provided a Cisco 678 router and a Qwest technician configured it (set the
> password) after fixing some problem with the DSL line.
> 
> After my friend got on the internet using his new DSL line, I asked him what his
> current IP address was.  He did a /sbin/ifconfig and sent me the eth0 entry for
> his ethernet adaptor and it showed an inet address of 10.0.0.2.
> 
> I've never seen a machine with a 10.x.x.x address.  I do know that www.arin.net
> says "These blocks are reserved for special purposes" and that I can't even ping
> that address.  I'm lost as to why he doesn't have a normal IP address or how I
> might be able to connect to his machine.
> 
> Might anyone know?
> 
> TIA,
> Matt
> 
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Maybe if he did a traceroute to your machine, the first address after
the 10.x.x.x non-routable would be the gateway/dsl hardware.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com