[CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

[John R Pierce]

On 12/3/2014 3:09 PM, g wrote:
> On 12/03/2014 04:15 PM, zep wrote:
>> >
>>>> >>>oh.   the ARP packet suggests that MAC address is 192.168.1.144
>>> >>that is how i see it.
>>> >>
>> >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

your ROUTER gets the internet IP on its WAN side (184.41.28.86 or 
whatever), and your LAN uses 192.168.1.xxx, the system you ran ifconfig 
on there has 192.168.1.144.   the router 'translates' your private LAN 
addresses to the public internet address, this process is often called 
NAT (Network Address Translation), or Masquerade.

so. Wireshark, for unknown reasons, thinks your system is 
'PartedMagic'.   I have no idea why.

so... 'PartedMagic' is a red herring.   whats the ACTUAL problem here 
we're trying to solve?


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john r pierce                                      37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast