Dear Ken,
If you had read further, you would have seen I qualified it as 'at least
this is the case in here in San Diego with Cox cable' :)
Tim
Ken Wilson wrote:
> That is really too broad a statement to make about @Home's ip leasing.
> Here in Victoria @Home is provided through Shaw Cable. Their leases
> rotate on a 48 hour cycle. If your machine is not connected when your
> lease is automatically renewed you could quite possibly get a new ip.
> In fact, I have on 3 or 4 occasions already.
>
> Ken Wilson
> First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is
> irrelevant
> (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Lewis
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 11:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Anyone been able to get their cable modems to
> work?
>
> <snip>
>
> As a matter of fact, when I setup my cable modem with @home, I was not
> required to use DHCP. They tell you you need it, but the tech who
> installed
> my modem said the use of DHCP was irrelevant, and told me to set a
> static
> IP. This is due to the fact that they re-lease the same IP address back
> to
> you every week.
>
> <snip>
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