Re: Why is my IP Address (as shown by FWShow) not what I've set up in Configure?

In message <b712f6e24d.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
druck <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2 Jan 2006 Steve Potts <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Can anyone explain why my Select (RO 4.39) Risc PC is showing the
> > following IP Address behaviour?

[snip]

> > ...The IP address is entered as 192.168.0.10.
> >
> > In the Hosts file, I have 192.168.0.10 for the relevant host name.
> >
> > Yet if I type FWShow at the command line, the host name shows as address
> > 1.109.102.96.
>
> Quite simple, this is the AUN style default address which will be used for
> any card which hasn't had an IP address assigned by any other method.
>
> Its what allows you to set up a peer to peer network between RISC OS
> machines just by turning on Access without having to assign IP addresses.
> All machines will use a 1.x.y.z address where x.y.z are derived from the
> MAC address of the network card, so should be unique.

Thanks for the replies. I knew it was some kind of Acorn default behaviour
but didn't realise where it was coming from. Given the hints here, I
realised that I had the following set:

Configure, Network, Interfaces, "Auto-configure" = AUN.

Setting that to None, resolved the problem.

Thanks.

[snip]

> > Everything outgoing to the Internet works and I've lived with this
> > situation for ages, but I've just tried to configure a firewall rule for
> > something incoming and traffic cannot get through when mapped to LAN
> > Server 192.168.0.10 on the Firewall rule and so I want to fix the odd IP
> > Address behaviour in case things are getting confused.
>
> It shouldn't get confused in practice, although there is a very small
> chance as 1.x.y.z address aren't privite like 10.x.y.z so are valid on the
> internet, so could be misrouted.

I thought it was a small chance, given that I'm trying to route to the 192
address, but I can now try again without it being in the equasion.

[snip]
> ---druck

Thanks again.
Steve.

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