on 23/01/01 01:43, chuck goolsbee at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> on 22/01/01 23:48, Peter Liethen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> <snip>It
>>> requests a lease refresh every 30 seconds. Keep their DHCP server on
>>> it toes :-) I kept this up until they asked why I was doing it, about
>>> two hours of arguing later, I had a static IP :-)
>>
>> Peter,
>>
>> What firewall box are you using? I'm using an Linksys Etherfast Cable / DSL
>> router. Any chance that I could turn the DHCP lease refresh to 30 seconds
>> too?
>
>
> Are you *trying* to piss off your ISP? If so, 30 seconds will do the
> trick (as Peter found out)
>
> Howver, if you just want to mitigate your problem then 30 minutes
> will probably work better! =)
>
> DHCP is such a fundamentally broken protocol. M$ 'embraced &
> extended' it even further into broken-ness. I try to avoid it whnever
> possible. Of course right now I'm using it on my home Airport
> network... but that is only dial-up connected... and I don't do any
> surfing at home and as little real work as possible. =)
Pissing it off is exactly my plan, after they started messing up my little
network. I think they deserve it, after they did promise I would be able to
access the internet from any computer on the network, as long as only one
would be making access simultaneously. Turned out that everytime I wanted to
access the internet from a different computer, I had to turn off Open
Transport, reset my cable modem, wait for the modem to come online, then
start my Macintosh. I thought I wouldn't be able to call their support and
waste all that time and money in trying to explain my problem to someone who
would actually have a clue!
-Laurent.
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