Just to share a frustrating experience and maybe gather enthusiasm for a class action lawsuit or something.
I use the local cable monopoly for my ISP, comcast. I use linux, obviously. I used dhcpcd to get my dynamically assigned ip address. The last time (in fact every time) I have gotten an address from comcast, the lease has been infinite, at least I think that a lease time of: LEASETIME=4294967295 RENEWALTIME=259200 REBINDTIME=3758096383 is infinite in the unix world. As a result, dhcpcd, instead of starting and staying a daemon, watching for the server to reassign the number, always exits after getting this lease time, saying that the lease was infinite, and so why bother running. Last night I lost my cable connection. I could see local traffic but nothing else. I finally called comcast 18 hours later, and was told, after many hours, (really, about three hours) that they had disconnected me. They had reassigned my ip number and since I had a static setup (third party software according to one service person) I was not allowed on their service and "one more incident like this and they would discontinue my account permanently." I did point out that I wouldn't mind that at all. I tried to explain, but, of course, this was not possible. After begging, they allowed me to obtain another dynamic ip number. That was nice of them, since I am a paying customer. It was nice of them to just d/c my service without notice. It was nice of them to cause this mess by assigning me an infinite lease to begin with. Sigh. They, being a monopoly, like best to deal with another monopoly, windows. But, after hours of work, all seems to be working again. Gaadd. What a bother. I wonder how those lindows computers will fare with this sort of hostile environment to linux? Joel _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
