On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 00:18, Alex White wrote: > Jeff Vian wrote: > > My experience with adsl was that the provider timed out the IP lease and > > I had to get a new one frequently (at least every 8 hours). > > > > The simplest way I found for that was to use "service network restart" > > and it just reconnected and worked. In fact I got so that I just ran > > that command from cron so I did not have to worry about it after that. > > That's very strange. I have adsl, and despite IP lease expiration > every 8 or so hours, I've never had to restart my network. In fact, > if dsl dies off for a short period and resyncs, rp-pppoe picks it > back up on its own typically. > > I have sbcglobal for a provider, what about yourselves? > > Alex White > I don't use adsl anymore. Got tired of the hassle and switched to cable modem. I have now had the same IP on dhcp lease for over 2 years.
