[olug] Qwest and IP assignment

[Adam Lassek]

Call me a pedant, but those devices, as well as the Cable variety, are not
modems at all but bridge/routers.
This has always bugged me.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:49 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> The Qwest DSL modems to act as a router.
>
> Tell your friend to go to whatismyip.com
>
> -- T. J.
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Eric Penne <epenne at olug.org> wrote:
> > My old actiontec dsl modem from Qwest was a firewall/router and wireless
> AP.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Eric P <eric.maillist at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I set up and installed a friend's computer recently with Linux.
>  However, I'm struggling to SSH onto their computer from
> >> mine at my house.  Their set-up is basically one
> computer->modem->Internet.  There's no router.
> >>
> >> When I'm at his house 'ifconfig' reports a 10.* address, but if I go to
> a web site via his computer (one that tells me
> >> my IP address) it tells me a 204.* address.
> >>
> >> Do these Qwest modems act as a router?  Or am I missing the boat?
> >>
> >> Thanks for reading,
> >> Eric P.
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