OT: Teksavvy Cable

[Slack Rat]

"D. Hugh Redelmeier" a écrit profondement:

| | From: Slack Rat <slacker-MOdoAOVCFFcswetKESUqMA at public.gmane.org>
>
| | Whois  99.232.78.156
>
| Rogers Cable Inc. BLOOR HSI (NET-99-232-78-0-1) 99.232.78.0 - 99.232.79.255
| Rogers Cable Communications Inc. ROGERS-CAB-99 (NET-99-224-0-0-1) 99.224.0.0 - 99.255.255.255
>
| Where did you pull that IP address from?  I assumed that you got it
| from the wireless connection in some fashion.  Can you explain that
| more precisely?


I just used No-Ip's "What's my IP" utility and then "whois'd" the
result.

My LANIP is 192.168.0.95
and 192.168.0.1 handles DHCP and DNS in addition to being the gateWay

>From my teksavvy connected server, 99.232.78.156 is pingable but a
traceroute dies in Rogers after 6 hops

 1  206.248.154.104 (206.248.154.104)  10.092 ms  54.633 ms  59.245 ms
 2  2120.ae0.bdr01.tor.packetflow.ca (69.196.136.66)  35.941 ms  9.464 ms *
 3  gw-rogers.torontointernetxchange.net (198.32.245.29)  10.083 ms  36.812 ms  23.852 ms
 4  so-1-2-0.gw02.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com (64.71.240.54)  61.551 ms  9.780 ms  21.137 ms
 5  69.63.248.238 (69.63.248.238)  24.886 ms  22.812 ms  10.113 ms
 6  66.185.89.130 (66.185.89.130)  11.336 ms  13.441 ms  35.456 ms
 7  * * *

>
| That IP address is one in a large range (a /15) belonging to Rogers.
| The naming of the /23 subnet suggests that it is assigned to a node
| near Bloor Street.
>
| What's odd about this is that I'd have expected a wireless router's
| wireless port to have a non-Rogers address.  Usually it is a
| non-routable address from RFC 1918 like 192.168.1.100.
>
| Slack Rat: are you sure that the IP address your computer sees is
| 99.232.78.156?  Those are usually used for the cable side of a cable
| customer's NAPTing router (if any).
>
| If the cable customer has only one device, then a router isn't needed
| and that device can have that single IP address.  That isn't normally
| the case with a wireless router of access point.
>
| I guess that a wireless access point could be deployed as a bridge but
| that would require that there be only one wireless device talking to
| it.  In that case, the wireless device would see the upstream router's
| IP address as the next hop, and I think that on Rogers, those IP
| addresses usually end in .1 (99.232.78.156 does not end in .1).
>
| (I've heard that Rogers will let you get two IP addresses, for a fee.
| In that case, two devices can be attached to their modems without a
| NAPTing router.)
>
| $ host 99.232.78.156
| 156.78.232.99.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer CPE00222d1e137d-CM00222d1e1379.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com.
>
| >From this, I can tell that the MAC address (generally wired into the
| hardware when manufactured, but can be spoofed) was assigned to SMC
| Networks Inc.  They make a lot of networking equipment for consumers.
>
| So: it looks to me as if your neighour has an SMC wireless router.
| But I don't think 99.232.78.156 would be the IP address on the
| wireless port (the Slack Rat facing port).

Interesting if somewhat over my head.

As I mentioned in another post in this thread, I was checking on my
own server-->lappy ad-hoc when the WLAN essid showed up.

And being dissatisfied with Teksavvy, I shall be dropping them at the
end of this month and trying Zazeen, as I need at least 5.0 up.
(https://www.zazeen.com/OnlinePC.html) and I was on the lookout for a
cheap connection to ssh into Zazeen and wondered if WLAN was in fact
directly Rogers.

In any instance, there's a Coin Laundry just around the corner open
0600-2200 which has a decent free wifi.

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Slackrat
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