I'll keep an eye out for another lock up and try re-running IPMASQ to see if it helps. My current thoughts are that, as suggested by Ruediger Gubler, the Freeserve DHCP server is changing the IP address. Whilst this works most of the time for windows I have had similar lock up problems in the past but never knew why. Now that Linux is telling me what goes on in /var/log/messages I can try to do something about it. I would guess that the lock-ups are caused by the fact that when I initiate a transaction the other end learns my IP address and replies to that address but due to the fact that Freeserve have changed my IP address the replies never reach me. Thus Linux needs to keep track of the dynamic changes to the IP address and retransmit requests with my new address so that the other end knows of the change. This sounds like a security nightmare. Maybe I just have to live with this. Any ideas or suggestions where I should discuss this would be welcome. TIA Ges ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Mansfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ges Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 5:46 PM Subject: Re: Dynamic IP adresses changing during connection to ISP > > On Wed, 17 May 2000, Ges Cook wrote: > > My question is, is there any way to lock down a dynamically assigned IP > > adress once it has been assigned so that is is constant for the duration of > > the connection? > > > > Maybe I can extend the IP masquerading in some way so that the external > > dynamic IP is directed to a constant local spoof address? > > if you re-run "ipmasq" do your connections restart OK? > > > > > I am running mandrake 6.1 > > > > TIA > > Ges Cook > > > > > > Paul > -- > P Mansfield, Senior SysAdmin PSINet UK Ltd, +44-1223-577611 fax:~577600 > Civilisation: where they cut down the trees and name streets after them. >
