FW: [LARTC] ISP Static IP assinging
Hi, Thanks for the reply. >> Not sure if this is the right mailing list for this but its kinda on topic. >It is ADVANCED routing; you have a simple configuration issue, so I hope you posted more than just here. >> we've installed a linux machine which load balances 2 adsl lines. The >You left out a critical bit of info: WHAT DISTRO? F.E. Slackware does this in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or /etc/rc/d/rc.inet1.conf Its red hat 9 >It sure as hell is not doing load balancing if it isn't getting assigned correct IPs. I'm using a program called netsplitter from www.hostname.org seems rather crude but does the job. >> trouble is the ip address assigned to it when it connects isn't >> anything like the static IP addresses they've provided. Again, critical info missing: WHAT IP DO YOU GET? The IPs I get seems to be dynamically assigned from the ISP, not different every time but do vary from week to week. >>Each Network Interface Card ("NIC" or "eth# where "#" is 0 to n) can >>respond to any number of IPs. This was called "aliasing" (a hit for >>your google search) but because these are real IPs, the term alias is >>wrong. You (probably) need only 1 of the 5 IPs for each of the 2 DSLs; >>each DSL should be on a different eth#. Probably should of mentioned that I'm using 2 speedtouch usb modems which as you could probably guess once connected are ppp0 and ppp1. >Is there something I have to > change in order to make use of these addreses? >>YOU assign the IPs, not Linux or the DSL device ("modem" or "router" or >>whatever terminology). >You need to read about DHCP and NAT because it is likely that the IP >assigned via DHCP begins with one of the following >10.0 >169.254 >172.16 >192.168 >which are NATted, example, internal IPs. >Sorry, but I don't have time this morning to say more. Don't be sorry you responded and that was enough. Anyway I'm going to do a bit of googling on aliasing and see what I can dig up. Cheers. Chris ___ LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
Re: [LARTC] ISP Static IP assinging
Chris Bolton wrote: > > Not sure if this is the right mailing list for this but its kinda on topic. It is ADVANCED routing; you have a simple configuration issue, so I hope you posted more than just here. > we've installed a linux machine which load balances 2 adsl lines. The You left out a critical bit of info: WHAT DISTRO? F.E. Slackware does this in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or /etc/rc/d/rc.inet1.conf It sure as hell is not doing load balancing if it isn't getting assigned correct IPs. > trouble is the ip address assigned to it when it connects isn't anything > like the static IP addresses they've provided. Again, critical info missing: WHAT IP DO YOU GET? Each Network Interface Card ("NIC" or "eth# where "#" is 0 to n) can respond to any number of IPs. This was called "aliasing" (a hit for your google search) but because these are real IPs, the term alias is wrong. You (probably) need only 1 of the 5 IPs for each of the 2 DSLs; each DSL should be on a different eth#. >Is there something I have to > change in order to make use of these addreses? YOU assign the IPs, not Linux or the DSL device ("modem" or "router" or whatever terminology). You need to read about DHCP and NAT because it is likely that the IP assigned via DHCP begins with one of the following 10.0 169.254 172.16 192.168 which are NATted, example, internal IPs. Sorry, but I don't have time this morning to say more. gypsy ___ LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
[LARTC] ISP Static IP assinging
Hi, Not sure if this is the right mailing list for this but its kinda on topic. Apparently our ISP has assinged 8 static IP addresses to us, A network IP address, a route ip address and 5 user ip addresses. Now they supplied us with a router with 5 ports on, each one of the ports would assign a different static ip address but this broke sometime again and since then we've installed a linux machine which load balances 2 adsl lines. The trouble is the ip address assigned to it when it connects isn't anything like the static IP addresses they've provided. Is there something I have to change in order to make use of these addreses? I'm at a total loss with this and I hope I've made myself clear. Regards, Chris. ___ LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/