Hi,
I'm the guy who figured out the long lease times with Bellsouth ADSL. I
will try and answer your question later this weekend. I have to leave
_right_now_ to pick up kids and I don't have the settings in front of me.
Jim
">jkinney@wizardinc.net
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Eric Schmenk wrote:
> I am trying to use my Linux box as a firewall. My internet connection is
> via BellSouth ADSL using an external ADSL modem. Currently, I plug the
> cable from the modem into my windows machine and set the windows machine to
> use ADSL. Once I get my lease from BellSouth's ADSL server, I connect the
> modem to my Linux box, where I use the IP address that I got from the ADSL
> server. This works for a few days until the lease expires. There has to be
> a better way.
>
> I've tried to use both pump (I've got RedHat 6.2) and dhcpcd (with and
> without the -r argument). I always specify -h hostname. In other words,
> the commands I've tried are
>
> pump -i eth0 -h myhostname -l 30000
> dhcpcd -r -h myhostname -l 30000
>
> and various permutations of these. For the hostname, I'm using the same
> hostname that works under windows. (It must be specified to get a lease
> from BellSouth's DHCP server.)
>
> I've looked for evidence that IPChains is filtering something out, but if it
> is I haven't noticed it.
>
> I remember someone (I don't remember who) saying that BellSouth's DHCP
> server is stupid and will grant very long leases, so apparently someone has
> figured out how to make this work.
>
> So, what do I need to do?
>
> TIA
>
> Eric Schmenk
>
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