Actually I'm ashamed to say I use a plain old Linksys router at home (I know my membership to this list should be taken away from me). I just don't have room for another PC, I think 5 for a family of four is quite sufficient. The only reason I really pay attention to the address is because I've setup pcAnywhere at work to only allow mine and my assistant in Orlando's IP address through. She has to call me every couple of months to have her IP address changed in the GnatBox.
My experience with Cox is if you keep the same NIC, you keep the same address. I hooked the modem directly up to a PC (skirting the Linksys) and received a new address. I hooked the Linksys back up and received my old address again. Everything is on all of the time. Slight typo in my response: Cox has warned everyone to "USE DHCP" Wes Stewart IT Manager Cruise America -----Original Message----- From: Mike Burden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 9:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gb-users] Cable Modem IP Lease Wes, Do you shut down your GNAT Box when you are not using your Internet connection, or do you leave it running all the time? My experience (and what I've heard from others) is that most of the Cable Modem providers have DHCP servers that are pretty good about giving you back the address you had previously, as long as your GNAT Box asks for it before someone else gets it. The result is that if you leave your GNAT Box booted all the time, you have the next closest thing to a static IP. Of course, given that I am on AT&T and you are on Cox, YMMV. Mike Burden Lynk Systems http://www.lynk.com (616)532-4985 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
