[wplug] Verizon misconfiguration?

[Jonathan Billings]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:07:25PM -0500, Janos Dohanics wrote:
> 
> My point is this: if I traceroute from my LAN, the next hop beyond
> my gateway (10.61.70.1) should be a publicly routable IP address,
> and not 10.6.8.1. 
> 
> So, I think my connection is misconfigured by Verizon - am I
> correct? 

I seem to recall that with some DSL or Cable providers, you'll get a
private IP when you first turn on the service, so you can sign up for
an email account and download all their bloatware that changes the IE
default home page and installs a bunch of "marketing" toolbars.

Maybe your modem somehow was switched to that network?  THey probably
have a very low QoS for those packets.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>