Tom Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 03 January 2002 10 22:33 pm, Joel Hammer dropped these nuggets of > information: > > Well, I have enjoyed a static ip number on my cable modem for a year or > > so from @HOME. But, they are dead, so I seem be forced to get a dynamic > > ip number. <SNIP> > I have had the same IP since I got my DSL (going on a year now) even though > they use DHCP. Although for my DSL it is a non-routable IP. > > I think it depends on how your client refreshes itself against their DHCP > server as to if they can change the IP. I imagine as long as it doesn't > assign the IP you have out in the time it takes to drop and request the IP > again it should be fine.
That's one thing that I noticed right off the bat, the messages in /var/log/ changed: # [root@hostname /root]# tail /var/log/messages # Jan 3 22:21:02 hostname dhcpcd[23814]: infinite IP address lease time. # Exiting # Jan 3 22:38:53 hostname -- MARK -- -- Linux SxS [http://sxs.webhop.net/] _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
