[CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:09 PM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>>>
>> is that 1.144 IP address  in use by the machine you ran the lspci
>> from?
>
> somewhere. but i know not where.
>
> http://www.whoami.it/home/ shows me to be;
>    adsl-184-41-28-86.mem.bellsouth.net
> for the hell of it, i pulled and reconnected DSL line, now, i am
>    adsl-184-41-28-44.mem.bellsouth.net
>
> which is now confusing me more because the 1.144 address is in;
>
>  ~]$ ifconfig
>  eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:FE:8F:8F:23
>            inet addr:192.168.1.144  Bcast:192.168.1.255 \
>             Mask:255.255.255.0
>            inet6 addr: fe80::20f:feff:fe8f:8f23/64 Scope:Link
>
>  lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>            inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>
> virbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 52:54:00:B3:A7:95
>           inet addr:192.168.122.1  Bcast:192.168.122.255 \
>            Mask:255.255.255.0
>
> [geo at boxen ~]$
>
> so a question, in checking with a 'whoami' i got;
>    adsl-184-41-28-86.mem.bellsouth.net
> where is the 192.168.1.144 being produced when i am not in a VM.
>
> looking in man ifconfig, nothing is given as to just what is shown.
>
>> I think his original intent was that perhaps it was a separate
>> device. are you running VMs on this host by chance?
>
> no VM. this box connects straight to router, which connects straight
> to DSL/phone filter, which connects directly to drop line.
>
> something/somebody is 'hiding in the wood pile' and it has me
> scratching my balding head even more bald.

Sounds like a typical NAT router setup to me.    The router would have
one public IP and uses a private subnet for your LAN side.   The other
end of an outbound connection sees the NATed public address.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com