Most Cable or DSL seems to be long duration DHCP, stil DHCP. Mine got
changed finally after 1 1/2 years. I was on Static mode and started
noticing that it cutt off every 15 minutes, damnit, I should've realized
why but it took me like a couple of weeks to figure it out [acutally, by
accident when I rebooted into Windows to play damed C&C2 Tiberium Sun]
On 27 Oct 1999, Jaguar wrote:
> I also have a STATIC IP with my cable modem. Is DHCP needed or required for
> proper function of the IP lease/connectivity?
> TIA
> Jaguar
>
> John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > > I just recently switched to a dsl static ip line. But I don't seem to
> > > be able to tell my eth0 connection that it's not supposed to use dhcp
> > > any longer.
> > >
> > Hmm...turn off dhcpd in the setup menu? I'd also suggest
> > going into "netcfg" and putting your static IP in there for
> > etho. I just checked and there doesn't seem to be anything
> > in netcfg to tell Linux to use or not to use DHCP, so I
> > would guess that just not running it would work.
> > John
>
>
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