I have purchased 2 cable accesses (my provider wants me to pay for one
access per machine) and have been given a required machine name for each
access. I currently use only one access and am behind a D-Link 701
residential gateway (NAT). If I don't enter one of the two assigned machine
names in the gateway, I can't get an Internet connection. When I change the
machine name in the gateway, I get an IP via DHCP that corresponds to the
specific machine name. I think the Mark has a similar situation with his
cable provider.
Fred
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Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 09:33
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Subject: Re: [Freenet-chat] Attack on Freenet -- Already!
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:33:53PM -0800, Fred Salzer wrote:
> Ian, I'm not sure I understand what you mean; are you differentiating
> between a user and a machine? I'm running a node on cable with a static
IP,
> that is, I get the same IP every time via DHCP.
Well, it depends on how your machine is configured, it will probably
only request a new IP address if it finds that the one it used
previously is occupied when it boots. Try selecting another IP address
manually above or below the one you have now, you will probably find
that it works.
Cable Internet connections are actually rather effective at providing
anonymity provided that you are careful and never provide a way to tie
yourself to your connection (or if you do, you must subsequently change
your IP address).
Ian.
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