[NTLUG:Discuss] High Speed service(s)

Kenneth Loafman ken at lt.com
Tue Mar 11 12:59:53 CST 2003


Nope, on attbi with a few friends in the same situation.  No one I knew 
(before this group) has had any problem keeping the same IP by just 
keeping power on to the critical components.  No magic, just power. 
I've been on the same IP ever since November, 2001, almost 1.5 years.

...Ken


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