[NTLUG:Discuss] High Speed service(s)

[MadHat]

On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 11:46, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Why not just leave the router and modem on all the time?  DHCP servers 
> can't change addresses until the lease expires, and the router's DHCP 
> client will renew that address before it expires.  Much easier than the 
> schemes I've seen floating around here and it works.
> 

Actually it depends on how the DHCP server is setup.  Before I had
static IPs on my DSL, it changed every time the lease was up, because
they wouldn't allow a direct renewal of the same IP.  Its actually safer
that way, if you change the IPs regularly, for the mindless users who
don't protect their systems..

> ...Ken
> 
> 
> Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> > I have my box ( charter cable service ) access a web page on a
> > remote server every 30 minutes. This causes my current IP Address
> > to be written to a file on the remote server.
> > 
> > When I need to access my box, I check the file on the remote
> > server ( that address never changes ) and I can get my 'current'
> > dhcp address.
> > 
> > I have scripts set up that do this automatically.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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