<html><head></head><body><div>On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 15:57 -0400, Sean via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>I am trying to change from Comcast to AT&T. Complicating matters is my
router: it has wandered off into la-la land and I can no longer reach
its configuration pages. Typing 192.168.1.1 returns no such
address!!!!!
So I got a new router and its setup routine wants the ipv-4 address of
ATT's modem/router. AT&T reps claim they cannot give it to me because
they (apparently) can not retrieve it!!!!
What the hell?!
ATT's black box appearently contains a modem that takes data off the
incoming fiber line and then pushes that data over to an internal
router, which sends tv signals to the cable box and gives me two empty
ports -- one of which feeds my LAN. When I contact tech support and
ask for the ipv4 address I am told it is 192.168.1.254. Clearly I am
dealing with idiots.
Is there anyway I can pry loose the actual ipv4 address via the
command line?
HaHa! I found a way: <a href="http://bot.whatismyipaddress.com">http://bot.whatismyipaddress.com</a>
And now I know. Which just leaves the obvious question: Why is AT&T
the ONLY isp that cannot tell its customers their ipv-4 addresses? I
assure you that if the FBI/NSA wanted to know what I was doing on the
internet, AT&T would provide my ip address in a heartbeat. So why not
to me?
</pre></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You are CLEARLY not paying them enough!</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>
Sean
_______________________________________________
Ale mailing list
<a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a>
<a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a>
See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
<a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a>
</pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
</pre></span></div></body></html>