[olug] i'm ba-a-a-ack

[Trent Melcher]

Welcome back.....Your IP shouldnt change much,  the only time I ever had
mine change (since they have been cox.net) has been when my cable modem was
actually turned off for a week while I was on vacation.  When it went out to
renew the address it grabbed a new one.  Even thought they set the expire
time on the IP address for 24 hours, it goes out and tries to get the same
address, so unless your cable modem is off for an extended amount of time it
will renew with the same address.

When they were @home, even though your address was DHCP, they assigned you
an IP based on your hostname of your PC.  So you always got the same
address. But now since they have changed to cox.net, their validation used
is the MAC address of your cable modem now, and your address is truely
dynamic so the possibility of it changing is there.

Trent

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org]On Behalf Of
thelarsons3 at cox.net
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 11:11 AM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: [olug] i'm ba-a-a-ack


Thanks for the broadband advice back in August.  We ended up in NW Omaha,
and Cox looked like the best option.  We've got three boxes (Linux, NetBSD,
Windows) sharing the connection, and my wife and I are both pretty happy.
So far my IP hasn't changed so maybe I'll tinker with the firewall so I can
ssh in from outside.

Hope to be able to make it to a meeting sometime.  When is the next one?
What is the topic?

Tim - new transplant from MN

--
Tim & Alethea

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