[NTLUG:Discuss] High Speed service(s)

[Jack Snodgrass]

   You must not have charter.net. ;) They randomly change
subnets or flush their DHCP cache and give everyone new
IP Addresses.

jack


> 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.
>
> ...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.