You asked a lot, so I sprinkled my comments inside your quoted message.
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:38:55 -0500 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BACKGROUND:
> I am on comcast, and get dynamically assigned ip numbers now.
Yup, straight DHCP.
> This is a pain, since, as far as I can tell, comcast is not using a standard
> dhcpd server, and they don't support "third party" software.
My home network is on comcast.net in New Jersey. Currently my home server runs
OpenLinux 3.1.1. I use all the Caldera provided utilities with the ONLY
modification being security upgrades. It works PERFECTLY.
> My dhcpcd client can't tell when the ip number is changed...
That's an inherent part of DHCP.
>so, I run a
> script whenever my connection gets bad, and so far this has been working.
>
If dhclient isn't picking up the new address, you've got something set up wrong.
Review your setup.
> However, I have to fool around with the firewall rules, too.
>
How about adding this to your firewall script?
# your IP address
IPADDR=`ifconfig | grep -A 4 eth0 | awk '/inet/ { print $2 } ' | sed -e
s/addr://`
echo " using this IP address from DHCLIENT -->"$IPADDR"<--"
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