kcwireless-talk: Re: Everest

[Bill Cavalieri]

Depends how busy your area is, normal dhcp will give you the same ip
back if it is not in use by another mac address.  In a busy area, your
lease could expire, and be given to another address, pretty regularly.

-Bill

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 13:53, Mark Hutchings wrote:
> Hmm.. wonder why I'm so special that Road Runner wants to give me a new
> IP every 1 - 2 weeks?  I've never ran a server on it or anything.  Oh
> well, Everest is laying the cable down currently and last Friday they
> were putting these signs on the neighborhood doors that service will
> be available sometime between October 13 - 19.  
> 
> -- 
> Mark Hutchings
> desynergy at onebox.com - email
> 
> 
> ---- Gerald Combs <gerald at ethereal.com> wrote:
> 
> > Assuming Everest parcels out IP addresses using DHCP over vanilla Ethernet
> > framing (as opposed to that nasty PPPoE crap), you shouldn't need this.
> > As far as the DHCP server is concerned, you have your address until
> > your
> > lease expires.  Keeping the same address between reboots depends on
> > 
> >   - The client asking for the same address when it's time to renew
> >     the lease.  The DHCP clients on Windows, Linux and *BSD do this
> > by
> >     default AFAIK.  Dunno about Linksys, D-Link or similar appliances.
> > 
> >   - The server being able/willing to give you the same address.  Unless
> >     your network has been readdressed or your DHCP admin is a BOFH,
> >     this is probably the case.
> > 
> > I'm on RoadRunner at home, which uses DHCP with 24 hour lease times.
> > My firewall has been able retain its IP address for several months
> > (even across reboots) without any sort of keepalive.
> > 
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