Subject: Re: Getting Online! (Me too)
From: Brian Waite (bwaite@cspi.com)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 13:33:01 MDT
Please Please Please do not post actual IP addresses to the list!!!!!!!
Not that the person asking is unscrupulious but if you post your IP then here is what I know about you
1) A Netgear 4 port router
2) Linux PPC box on back end
3) IP address of netgear hub
4) The IP adress of the Linux box
This is way too much info to let into the wild.
Well now that sounds like a recipe for attack. All I do now is keep a lookout for Netgear Hub exploits and wham I am in. Of course I already know you are running Linux on a machine and now I just start sniffing. Better yet why don't I reconfig to router. There is no reason to be posting IP addresses. Learn whether you are using class A, B or C license and refer to them as such. If you need to, put a bogus IP addie of the same class instead. Atleast make people work if they want to use you as a target. Remember the people posting to the list are not the only ones reading the list.
Just my thoughts
Brian
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Subject: cdowns <cdowns : Re: Getting Online! (Me too)
cdowns <cdowns@skillsoft.com> on 06/19/2001 01:44:43 PM
Please respond to yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
cc: (bcc: Brian Waite/CSP)
Subject: Re: Getting Online! (Me too)
could you please explain this a little more in detail ? i might be able to
help you get going. i mean like actaul address something like
123.124.234.xxx and so on so i have an idea.
thanks chris
Carolyn Jean Fairman wrote:
> Gus,
>
> The router is a Netgear 4 port one, just so I can have 2+ computers on
> a network. I'm working towards Linux certification and as may well be
> clear here I don't know much about networks. (Plus my husband needed
> his own computer so he would leave mine alone!).
>
> So when the G3 is in Mac space the router shows an outside IP
> connection, the internal one is fine (I gave it a fixed IP just as a
> first step and I'll try DHCP later) and I get to the outside world. I
> reboot into Yellow Dog and internally things are ok -- I can ping
> stavia and localhost but trying to ping elsewhere gives me connect:
> network is unreachable. Indeed when I check the router config webpage
> (internally) it shows no WAN IP address. How also can I tell the
> machine its IP address without manually running ifconfig eth0 each time
> with the chosen 192.168.0.50?
>
> I don't see why the router isn't getting an outside WAN address just
> because my box started running linux...
>
> --Carolyn
>
> I may be able to help...
> Why did you get the router ?
> Is it a combination router and DSL connection ?
>
> Gus S Calabrese
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