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Old 08-12-2012, 03:53 PM   #1
maddyfreaks
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How to Find Private / Public Interface using ifconfig


Hello Experts,

I have a small Questions...

When we execute /sbin/ifconfig how can we say the interfaces are either private / public is there any way to say that...

In google I saw that below are completely restricted for private ip space.
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
But in one of the place I worked I see 192.168.0.XXX is for Private and
I see 192.168.2.XXX is for Public ...

Sample Output of my IFCONFIG from my current RAC setup which is different from old RAC setup

$ /sbin/ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:56:FC:39:EC
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20d:56ff:fefc:39ec/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:835 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:705714 (689.1 KiB) TX bytes:176892 (172.7 KiB)
Interrupt:3

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:41:E8:05:37
inet addr:192.168.2.100 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:41ff:fee8:537/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:546 (546.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:5110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:8276758 (7.8 MiB) TX bytes:8276758 (7.8 MiB)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

say eth0 / eth1 which is private and public interface

Last edited by maddyfreaks; 08-12-2012 at 03:54 PM.
 
Old 08-12-2012, 10:15 PM   #2
Jerre Cope
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I'm not sure you understand what private and public mean.

Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network

You can't just name it and claim on a network.

You WAN connection will have a public address and your router will generally distribute that availability to the LAN.

Check out the NAT references in the above article.
 
  


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