help needed for Ubuntu 8.04 on HP 6720s notebook

[Derek Broughton]

Abhishek Bawkar wrote:

> Hi Brian/Derek,
> 
>> samspade.org says the 100.100 range is reserved by iana
> 
> I think, I got what confusion you guys may have. We are definitely missing
> something here.

No, really, we're not confused.  
> 
> Let me explain how my internet connection is. My ISP has his own line,
> which is redistributed in our colony. So, let's say, my ISP becomes
> secondary master (secondary server), to which me and other users connect
> and this secondary master inturn connects to primary master (the main
> server). We all users have been assigned individual IP addresses by the
> secondary master (secondary server), and these IP addresses have nothing
> to do with the global IP address range, 100.100.*.*, reserved by iana.

Since you don't have the terminology right, it seems unlikely you can tell
us whether you're doing NAT - but _unless_ you're doing NAT then your IP
addresses have _everything_ to do with IANA's addresses.  In any case,
using IANA assigned public IP addresses for your private IP is a really,
really, bad idea.  IANA created the private IP blocks specifically for your
situation.

And since you seem to control the secondary server, why isn't it doing DHCP?

> *One thing to be noted here is, the secondary master (secondary server) is
> not a proxy server, I mean, we do not do any proxy settings on Windows.

That's really not important.

> *We have been given User IDs and passwords using which we connect to
> secondary server and inturn the primary server.
> 
> So, my IP address, gateway, subnet mask are local (not global) in our
> colony.

Unless you're doing NAT, your IP addresses are global. 

> Derek, I'll post the windows output of the *"route print"* command in the
> evening. Right now I am out of station, till then you can post your
> comments based on the above explaination.
> 
> I guess, you guys have got my point by now. If not, the output of "route
> print" will clear your doubt, probably.

There's no doubt - I'm just telling you somebody doesn't have a clue about
network configuration.  What the Windows output will do is tell us exactly
what you need to duplicate its routing table.
-- 
derek