Connectivity woes in Boston

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

This is called a lease. They don't give you a new ip address every three 
days. If you look in your lease database (On SuSE it is in 
/var/state/dhcpd), you will see an expiration date. You dhcp client daemon 
(or pump or whatever you use), will renew the lease. In nearly every case 
you will get the same ip address. I don't recall the last time my ip 
address changed, but it was months ago.
"Numberwhun *****" wrote:
> I have AT&T Roadrunner service and during an incident where my Cable router 
> decided to stop working (mysteriously), I discovered from the "tech support" 
> guy that they issue all of it's customers a new IP address, on the fly, 
> every 3 days.  How, may I ask, can they do that while you are surfing or 
> doing other things online?  Wouldn't that screw up any large projects you 
> were working on, such as downloading or uploading?
>
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org


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