That's how I suspect it will go with my current service. I'm just wondering how long the expiration time is set. I use the Linksys router, so as long as my power is on at home, my connection will be active. It claims the expiration time is 4 days, so I'm going to shut it off and find out in a few weeks.
-----Original Message----- From: David N. Precht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:33 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange Server in a Cable Environment My service uses DHCP, but I have found only two times when the IP over 3 years has changed : 1) they "upgraded" my modem to a new one 2) when I swapped the NIC No other times... -----Original Message----- From: Allen Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 08:59 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange Server in a Cable Environment I'm not sure how the rest of the cable modems work, but with @home (obviously this doesn't matter much now) you basically get a static IP anyway. Sure it uses DHCP, but does that matter when it never expires? With our new cable company's service (just got switched to Insight yesterday) it appears that the DHCP is based on the MAC address (@home used the hostname apparently). So I'm guessing that as long as I don't switch my Ethernet interface I'll have the same IP address. But I'm going to play with that first. I'm also going to shut everything off when I go on vacation in March to see if it expires and gives me a new one. Anyway, what I'm saying is that you may be able to just use the IP you have now as if it was static. Just test it out first and see how often it changes. That's what I do, although I have no mail server running. Just a web/FTP server to play with. Although my friend, who's with the same ISP, does have Exchange running just fine. -----Original Message----- From: ARAE NETWORKS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 12:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange Server in a Cable Environment I want to setup a Home Office and I have a Cable Modem which they tell me cannot guarantee a static IP address. Our mail records are hosted by an ISP. Is there a way for me to setup an Exchange 5.5 or 2000 server to receive and send mail in this configuration? Where and what do I have to configure in order to have this work correctly? JR _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
