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From: Martin Harriss <martin@Princeton.EDU>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] getting the remote IP wrong
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Date: Thu,  8 Jan 2004 13:07:09 -0500
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Skip Tavakkolian wrote:

>After I restared httpd a couple of days ago, I've noticed in httpd
>logs the remote IP for machines outside my network are showing as the
>IP address of my firewall (public IP).   Why?
>
>FYI, I rebooted with a new kernel built from the latest sources. I see there
>were changes to devip about a month ago.
>
>
>
Is your firewall doing address translation? Many do.

Martin