[svlug] ifconfig output ##

[Ray Olszewski]

At 09:08 PM 6/30/00 -0400, Minh Van wrote:
>ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>          inet addr:10.0.28.57  P-t-P:129.78.56.16  Mask:255.255.255.255
>          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:131110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:130869 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
>
>what is the difference between inet and p-t-p addresses ? and why would my
>irc client's '/whois' give me another unique online ip and/or dns from
>ifconfig's inet & p-t-p addresses ?

inet is the address at your end of the PPP connection. P-t-P is the address
at the remote end.

As to IRC, I can only guess that your ISP is doing some sort of NAT that
overlays a different public address on the connection. Since 10.0.28.57 is a
private (non-routable) address, this seems like a good guess. You'dhave to
ask your ISP fot the details, though ... it's not a Linux matter as such.


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