> I use postpaid mobile broadband and my IP is both the system address and >> the gateway. There is no NAT with postpaid service, it's only available >> with prepaid in Australia. Not sure why. >> > > Not sure what you mean there.... I suspect you mean only postpaid allow a > static IP address (for some accounts). I use both prepaid and postpaids USB > UMTS modems with different ISPs - they all use the same, weird, setup where > the remote address is "defaulted to" (different dogs, same leg action) - > perhaps that's the NAT you're referring to?? > > ie. Could not determine remote IP address: defaulting to 10.64.64.64[*1] > > eg. ppp0 inet address and p-t-p are different, and the ip I use for remote > access is different again (the one shown in http://myip.dk) > > my system IP for ppp0 is 101.***.***.*** and it's not static. > but from what I can remember all postpaid accounts in Australia have 10.***.***.*** addresses and are behind NAT. The only way I could SSH was*by reverse port forwarding. I eventually ended up getting postpaid. That's how it works in Australia. I believe you are not in Aus.
See this post for more info. http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1488078 ******* > The only things I need are CUPS and SMTP for Zimbra. >> >> I will disable the rest. I guess I have to use update.rc-d. >> > > you could just remove them > eg:- > # apt-get --purge remove libnfsidmap2 nfs-common samba > > if you don't use samba at all (cifs-utils samba samba-common > samba-common-bin smbfs) then change "samba" to "samba*" > > I'd suggest using -s instead of --purge first - just in case samba was > originally pulled in by another package which you want to keep. > > Thanks for the info. Will definitely uninstall samba and nfs. > -- Kind regards, Yudi
