I don't think that will work, because your DHCP client is supposed to
renew the lease every so often (around 1/2 of the lease time). So, if the
machine is losing connectivity, I doubt it would be a dhcp issue, unless
the dhcp client is dying off and not doing the renew.
Sean
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Robert Cotran wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I don't know if I'm right, but ADSL here in Montreal cycles IP address quite
> often, so maybe it's possible that your ISP is cycling your IP address even
> though you have maintained the connection with them. In order to fix this,
> you'd have to run some kind of dhcpcd script which would request a new IP as
> soon as you lose the one you had previously. I don't know if this would
> work, but you could test it by running dhcpcd as soon as you can no longer
> connect to the net and see if that's the problem. This is just my two
> cents. Good luck.
>
> Rob
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Fitzgerald
> > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 11:41 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [Masq] Seem to lose DSL connection to ISP every day
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm not sure this is a pure Masq problem, and if it's not, my apologies.
> >
> > I have an ADSL connection to my ISP. I have a Linux (Redhat 5.2 using
> > IPFWADM) firewall machine that also is the box used to masq my internal
> > network (2 nic's). I leave both the firewall and ADSL modem on 24/7. I've
> > noticed recently that when I try to access the Internet from a client
> > (NT/Win95/Linux) after about a day or so, I can't ping out to the Internet
> > (although my connection to the firewall box is still good). The
> > firewall's
> > also cannot ping out. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a
> > methodology to use to determine if this is: 1) an ISP/ADSL connection
> > problem, 2) a problem in the config of my firewall, or 3) something in the
> > masq setup?
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> >
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