Guy,
It is a standard RCA cablemodem. My box has a NIC
connected by a CAT5 cable directly to it. On the other
side is the cable, the same stuff that is connected to
my TV. I would assume the router is maintained
somewhere downstream from me. I am not privy to the
network configuration.
John
--- Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 01:35:16PM -0700, John E.
> Mayorga wrote:
> > If I then poke through ethereal, any responses
> (mostly
> > http responses) give the "Ethernet II" source MAC
> of
> > the router (and it resolves to the router's IP on
> the
> > same line), and gives the "Internet Protocol"
> Source:
> > as the responding machine.
>
> What does your network configuration look like? Do
> you have a bunch of
> machines either plugged into the router or plugged
> into the same network
> as the router, and some other network coming out the
> other side of the
> router?
>
> Is the router a box with Ethernet on both sides, or
> is it a cable modem
> with a router in it, i.e. with Ethernet on one side
> and a cable
> interface on the other?
>
> If it has an Ethernet on both sides, on which side
> are you sniffing? If
> you're sniffing on the other side of the router
> ("the other side" is the
> side not connected to the network on which the other
> machines are
> running), or if the router is the Linux box and
> you're sniffing *on* the
> router, on the interface on the other side, then,
> from an Ethernet point
> of view, all the traffic *is* coming from the router
> - Ethernet isn't a
> routed protocol. From an IP point of view, it's
> coming from the machine
> that sent it, however.
>
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