two questions

[rir at mediaone.net (R. Ransbottom)]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Chris Janicki wrote:

> My Mediaone connection uses DHCP to assign IPs.  You're pretty limited 
> unless you have some business grade service I don't know of.  If it is 
> DHCP, your setup will work, but only as long as you don't reconnect to 
> retrieve a random IP/host address.  And I wouldn't be surprised if 
> Mediaone forces reconnections every 24 hours or so, just to prevent this 
> type of usage.

Roadrunner does nothing odd with DHCP.  Your host will probably renegotiate
its DHCP lease daily.  If you leave it up normally you will maintain
your IP address.

This is the only correct action on RR's part, otherwise they are
interrupting your service.


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