[ale] Comcast speeds-now static IP

[Jim]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thursday 29 March 2007 01:24:19 pm Jim Popovitch wrote:
>   
>> I don't think so.  In the past, when Comcast had DHCP probs, I
>> statically defined my previous IP/subnet/gatway (you do have a hard/soft
>> copy of yours somewhere, right?) and it worked for a few days until I
>> remembered to change it back to DHCP.  Even then DHCP still gave me the
>> same info.
>>     
>
> I was just looking at ipconfig, and I guess I've been out to lunch, or never 
> bothered to look.. I am running SUSE 10.2 behind a netgear router. When I run 
> ipconfig I have 2 entries that I'm not familiar with. What are these vmnet 
> entries?? the other side of my router? Is this the IP that Bellsouth gives me 
> as my IP?
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>           inet addr:192.168.10.2  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::216:76ff:febc:3faf/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:3720172 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:2541083 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:1120163590 (1068.2 Mb)  TX bytes:190156924 (181.3 Mb)
>           Base address:0xecc0 Memory:dffe0000-e0000000
>
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:79180 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:79180 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:9819117 (9.3 Mb)  TX bytes:9819117 (9.3 Mb)
>
> vmnet1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:xxxxxxxxx
>           inet addr:172.16.169.x  Bcast:172.16.169.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> vmnet8    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:......
>           inet addr:172.16.212.x
>
>   
That looks suspiciously like vmware....

Jim.