Really depends on your ISP on how long your alowed to keep a leased IP. For example my ISP (Pacific Bell, Monterey PacBell district, California) doesnt change my IP address unless I reboot my router and even then I have a 50-50 chance of receiving the same IP address as before, but I know of other ISP's (mostly European it seams) forceably change your IP address every few hours (I had the same IP once for 3 months and the only reason it changed was because the entire house lost power). Dachstein and EigerSteinBETA2 PPPoE v.0.4 both support non-demand dial PPPoE so you should be able to keep a fairly static IP address, providing you dont have a over agressive ISP.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Laidlaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LEAF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeS/Wan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 12:54 PM Subject: [Leaf-user] Using pppoe > I have had cable access (using DHCP) for a year and > my IP address has changed only once. This is very > convenient, considering I often access my home network > from a RW. I don't need DNS to resolve the address, I > hard code it. > > I now have to use ADSL access using PPPoE and dynamic > address. My question is: are PPPoE addresses as stable? > > Is there the equivalent of a "lease". Is there a trick > I can use to keep the address (e.g. ping some address > once a minute)? Is there another way that I can tolerate > changing addresses by reresolving the address (dynamic > DNS???). > > TIA > > Keith Laidlaw > Manager of Engineering > Dakins Engineering Group Ltd. > tel: (905) 814-6024 > fax: (905) 814-6029 _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
