cannot ssh into a box with DHCP assigned IP address

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Wednesday, February 20, 2013 a las 03:03:21PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht escribió:

> 	The class B network 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 is not routed in
> 	Internet (see RFC1918). This is a so called "private addr" you get from
> 	your Access Point. It is hided by the AP (or by some other router more
> 	far away) behind a real IP addr. You can check what this addr is by
> 	going to the page http://myip.nl/
> 
> 	And you can not SSH to the addr shown there, at least normally it would not
> 	be NAT'ed to your addr you got by DHCP.
> 
> 	No way.
> 
> fuck.. This is the first thing I should've checked.
> Sorry for wasting everybody's time.
> The irony is that I know very little about
> networking, but the three private IP ranges
> is something I actually knew about.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Anton
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And why you Cc freebsd-ports, when the thread was in freebsd-questions?

	matthias

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