sshd ssh question

I logged into my home computer from work as I am now. The secure log
shows me logging in but the IP address does not match the computer I am
currently on. What does this mean?



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CL Gilbert

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:40:57 -0400, CL (dnoyeB) Gilbert
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I logged into my home computer from work as I am now. The secure log
> shows me logging in but the IP address does not match the computer I am
> currently on. What does this mean?
>
Maybe it is the IP of your company firewall?
Does the computer you are on have an internet ip address, or a local
address such as 192.168.* or 10.*?


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Bill Marcum wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:40:57 -0400, CL (dnoyeB) Gilbert
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>I logged into my home computer from work as I am now. The secure log
>>shows me logging in but the IP address does not match the computer I am
>>currently on. What does this mean?
>>
>
> Maybe it is the IP of your company firewall?
> Does the computer you are on have an internet ip address, or a local
> address such as 192.168.* or 10.*?
>
>

Its an internet IP address. Could be the firewall I suppose. Just
surprised it would change the IP address like that when its a full
fledged address.

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CL Gilbert

Most likely your company is running NAT (network address translation)
so all the computers inside the office can get to internet. IP
netblocks are too expensive to use an internet routable address on a
single desktop.

To anyone outside it looks like your IP is the firewall and the
firewall keeps track of your session.

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:31:22 -0700, SC Young wrote:

> Most likely your company is running NAT (network address translation) so
> all the computers inside the office can get to internet. IP netblocks are
> too expensive to use an internet routable address on a single desktop.
>
> To anyone outside it looks like your IP is the firewall and the firewall
> keeps track of your session.

My company uses properly registered Internet legal addresses on all the
desktops and then NATs them at the firewall. We're wasting most of a
/16. No, don't ask me, I'm in Sysadmin not the network team

Regards, Ian

SC Young wrote:
> Most likely your company is running NAT (network address translation)
> so all the computers inside the office can get to internet. IP
> netblocks are too expensive to use an internet routable address on a
> single desktop.
>
> To anyone outside it looks like your IP is the firewall and the
> firewall keeps track of your session.
>

Yes, I checked today and the address is a 10.x.x.x address so its NAT.
It never occured to me large companies like this would do NAT. But if
it works...

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CL Gilbert

CL (dnoyeB) Gilbert wrote:

> Yes, I checked today and the address is a 10.x.x.x address so its NAT.
> It never occured to me large companies like this would do NAT. But if
> it works...

Actually, many companies use those addresses. Even ISPs use them for
internal routing and other purposes.