Today, Steven W. Orr gleaned this insight:
> Thanks. I happen to be using pump which is what gets started by the netcfg
> interface. Seems to work fine.
>
> I do have a question though. Do you happen to know if my DHCP IP address
> can change while I'm up
Yes... er, which is to say that your DHCP lease can expire, at which point
your dhcp client should renew it. One problem that can occur though is
that your ISP may change the IP address prior to your lease expiring.
Then your system will think it has a valid lease, but the DHCP server (and
whatever magic equipment your ISP has between you and them) will not
recognize you as the valid holder of that address. Result: you need to
restart networking, to get your new IP address.
Depending on where you live, MediaHun does this all the time. I've had 6
IP addresses in 10 months. Others typically have been much more stable.
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