[olug] Qwest and IP assignment

[Kevin]

Yeah, but you tell the average end user to "unplug your cable bridge
and plug it back in again" and they're lost; they thought that bridges
carried cars and trucks; a cable bridge would look like Golden Gate.
But you tell them to do the same thing with their cable modem and they
know exactly what you're talking about.

Sad that they don't know the difference, but there's a lot that we
techies don't know about.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Adam Lassek <adam at doubleprime.net> wrote:
> 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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