Re: Strange LAN IP Address.
On 7/2/2018 9:17 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I have my principle Debian Stretch platform on the LAN in our home. Two
towers (both Linux platforms) and a HP Printer have wired connections,
my Win 10 Laptop and two Android smartphones use WiFi connections.
This morning when I
When I tried using WinSCP on the Laptop to transfer a file from the
principle Linux platform the connection attempt failed!
When I ran ifconfig on the Linux platform it showed the unet connection
to be 162.237.98.238!!????? The LAN modem employs DCHP set with allowed
IP range as 192.168.1.64 through 192.168.1.253, which was set by the T&T
installer when we switched to a fiber optic network.
Further examination of the modem settings showed IP Passthrough status
as on (Public IP Address), which was, in fact the IP.
I spent 40 minutes, on hold for 28 of those minutes, with an AT&T
UVVerse technical (????) person without hearing any reasons why the IP
was what it was.
Note the tense at the end of the above sentence, because subsequent
rebooting the modem restored the IP address to the correct DHCP range. I
suppose the moral of this - first reboot the modem.
The question that I have, however, is how did this happen in the first
place? Or is the reason lost in the black hole of the Internet?
Is this indicative of a hardware problem?
Could be hardware failure or could also be an software bug!
While searching for that IP I get:
https://www.ipligence.com/ip-address?ip=162.237.98.238
is this your public IP (IP assigned by your ISP)?
It could be that the ISP router went into "bridge mode" (router function
was disabled).
Most of the time ISP router are not the best and I would suggest to
anyone to not reley on that router for firewalling capability especially
when ISPs can remotely control that thing!
In the case of my ISP I need to reboot my ISP router every week or so to
get stable services.
--
John Doe
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