Previously, Joel Hammer chose to write:
> BTW, my current plan is, if I have to reboot, I will not run dhcpd and
> not ask to be reassigned an ip number. In effect, I will act like I have a
> static number. Afterall, they did give an infinite lease when they assigned
> my number to me.  Has anyone tried this?
> Joel
>

Hi Joel, 
Thru several re-boots of my router (opening and  closing ports), my IP 
address has yet to change.  I don't think you have to worry about using DHCP 
to get your IP address. It seems each cable modem gets a unique IP address 
that doesn't change.
HTH, 
Tim

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