[ale] AT&T Broadbrand and Linux

[Robert Heaven]

I'm a MediaNone customer. I shut down me Linux firewall nightly and boot up
every day. My IP address changes about once per week.

----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Knapka <jknapka at earthlink.net>
To: ale at ale.org
To: Chris Egolf <cegolf at ugholf.net>; <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] AT&T Broadbrand and Linux


> Joe Knapka wrote:
> >
> > Chris Egolf wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Recently however, everytime I've had to reboot, my IP # has changed.
> > > Others I know have had the same problem.  Since I need to access my
> > > machine remotely, I've stopped doing this -- no more kernel upgrades I
> > > guess.  My understanding w/ DHCP is that you are supposed to get the
> > > same IP again if it's still available.  I find it hard to believe that
> >
> > Only if the lease hasn't expired. Maybe they've changed their server
> > to allow very short lease times.
> >
>
> Sorry, that didn't make any sense. You're right, you should get the
> same address if it's not in use, regardless of the lease time. But a
> short lease time would increase the likelyhood that your address is
> handed over to someone else while your machine is down.
>
> --
> *** Joseph Knapka ***
> In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks)
> are to be treated as variables.
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