Hi, I've been on Tel$tra cable since they started introducing unlimited download.
I've found out that, as long as your pc stays on during their expiry lease date, your IP won't change at all. I was using a direct PC --> modem 2 years ago, and had just bought a broadband router, had it cloned the previous nic mac address, and now I'm still using the same IP that's leased to me close to 6 mths ago. You're using the Motorola modem aren't you? HTH Rgds, Henry ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Rundle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 2:48 pm Subject: [SLUG] Telstra Cable, DHCP and iptables concern > Sluggers, > > I've got my Linux gateway doing it's thang (connected to Telstra > cable, > bpa login and > masquerading for the local lan) and it all works fine except that > if the > iptables rules are > in place *before* eth0 (the connection to the modem) is raised then > eth0 > cannot accept > a dhcp response from the cable modem to get it's ip address. (Input > policy on eth0 is > drop). Ok so no problem, when booting I just start the network > before > starting iptables, > *but* what happens when the dhcp lease expires?....Am I gonna find > that > in a day or > so's time the eth0 drops of the net and it all comes crashing down? > Do I > need a rule > set to accept dhcp replies from the cable modem and if so what? > > TIA's > > Pete > > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > ---------------- Powered by telstra.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
