OT: Stupid Networking Questions

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With neither thought nor caution, Scott Walker blurted:
> Customer changed their config.  Now I connect to their VPN fine, then I
> try to telnet to the IP address they gave me (10.0.0.1) and I get:
> 
> Remote Management Console
> 
> Login:
> 
> 
> Is this their router that I am talking to?

Probably.  Sounds like it.  General practise is to place the router is put
at the first or last available IP# on a subnet block.  On a full class C,
that'd be .1 or .254.  And I'm one of the few people I know that prefers
them up high rather than down low.  Most places will put them at .1.

Given the IP# and the login banner, I'd say odds are high that it is their
router.

> Have they given me the wrong IP address to use?

Probably.  Have you tried asking them?  :)

> Sorry for such a basic, stupid question but I am networking dumb.

No such thing as a stupid question.  Well, there are exceptions, but this
isn't one of them.

mark->
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