kcwireless-talk: Re: Everest

[Joe Goodman]

I'm sure there's a better "technical" explanation than this, but for the layman,
"keepalive" tells the router to keep up continuous communication with the WAN
gateway, thereby keeping it's connection alive and never relenquishing it's IP
address.  I can reboot the servers if I need to.  Still being new to Linux and
dependent on Windoze for to many things, I have to reboot at least weekly.
Cheers!

Gerald Combs wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Joe Goodman wrote:
>
> > That's correct.  I've been running http and ftp servers since January. They
> > don't guarantee a static IP address, but I have a Linksys router on a UPS
> > and with the "keepalive" option turned on.  I've had the same IP address for
>
> What does the keepalive option do, exaclty?  Just curious.