On Thu 15 November 2001 20:02, you (David Talkington) wrote: > Then there's unfortunately nothing you can do about the short lease > time. The server should, however, be giving you back the same address > you had if it's available, leading me to believe that you may be on a > very busy network that's short on leases. In such a case, you'd > probably also expect to see occasional failures to renew, if there > were no leases available at the moment. That might explain some of > what you're seeing.
I was wondering if I should a little increase the lease renewal frequency in my client... > You may be a good candidate for a download manager that can resume > when you go down and come back on a different IP. I mostly use ncftp/ncftpget and wget. The first one is able to resume downloads, the second I feel to like more (I don't know why) but it lacks the ability to use passive ftp (I have to temporary allow incoming ftp-data connections) > You'll find iptables much easier to deal with in this regard. Not > necessary to poke so many holes. It's in my shedule... for tomorrow :) Before I start RTFM : is it relatively simple to translate the ipchains rules to iptables rules? --Mariusz -- Tego nie znajdziesz w żadnym sklepie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
