In Europe a lot of the ISP give you a new dynamic IP every day. This way they try to sell fixed IPs for more money ;-( .
In fact in Germany most of the DSL ISPs do that. hn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Frank Clavelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 11:35 PM Subject: Re: [Kaboodle-user] Rookie Kaboodle Questions > Frank: > > Heya. My understanding of dynamically assigned IP addresses > is that your ISP's could "change your IP address" (ie, let another one > of their customers use the IP address you were most recently assigned) > if it perceives that you weren't doing anything with your Internet > connection. That is, if you have a long-term, established connection, > it is very unlikely the ISP would change your IP address on you in the > middle of it, causing the connection to "break". As soon as your > Internet > use becomes idle, though, it could happen. ISP's do this so that they > can have a total number of customers larger than the number of IP > addresses they own (lease, really), which makes broadband Internet > more affordable than it otherwise would be. > > Fortunately...there's not many reasons I can think of that would > require two LANs to be *permanently* connected to each other. And > if the IP address changes due to a re-assignment during a period of > inactivity, it's pretty easy with Kaboodle (via KaboodleProxy) to > reestablish a connection whenever it's needed, regardless of what > the current IP address is. > > I hope this helps! > > cheers, > Scott > > > On Nov 6, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Frank Clavelli wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Kaboodle seem to be a very cool tool and I am going to attempt and > > play with it. I have two Windows based LANs that I would like to > > connect together permanently. However, they connect to the Internet > > using DSL and cable modems and the IP address assigned to the routers > > are dynamic and might change without notice. Will Kaboodle keep the > > two LANs connected even though the IP addresses might change? > > > > I would appreciate any advise you might have. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Frank Clavelli > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE > LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Kaboodle-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kaboodle-user > To UNSUBSCRIBE, click on the above link. > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ Kaboodle-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kaboodle-user To UNSUBSCRIBE, click on the above link.
