If you read the RFP on DHCP, you will find that as long as the IP is active that it will get renewed during its half-life of the lease. So if you have an expiration of 2 hours, your IP will be "renewed" every hour.
-----Original Message----- From: Pete Smith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 3:48 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Telnet via Cable Modem Timeout At 10:19 PM 7/17/02 -0500, KC9JS, John wrote: >So your problem >must be related to the Linksys router. Just saying it may be something you >should look it. I'm not sure this is obviously the router. Cable modem systems can be set up ("provisioned" is the weird word they use, I guess from telephone-speak) in a number of different ways. At least in theory, the one I'm on grants a set-duration "lease" of an IP address. There was briefly a time where it would drop every 2 hours regularly as clockwork, but that stopped fairly quickly and now I keep the same IP address. I *think* the system is automatically renewing my lease every two hours... As for the support, I couldn't agree more. Once in a while you get someone who knows his or her stuff, but it's rare. I've found one such guy now and learned a "back way" to get to him. It makes things a lot better. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the World HF Contest Station Database at www.pvrc.org _______________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
