On Tuesday 22 April 2003 09:08 am, Nate Carlson wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, David Phillips wrote: > > The IP address is static, assuming you never the change MAC address of > > the ethernet interface connected to the modem. > > I believe their lease is actually 60 days; I know it's never changed on > me while the box is running, but there have been times where I've > rebooted after about a year of uptime for a new kernel, and received a > new IP address from them (same MAC address on the NIC, of course). If I > reboot right after that, I keep the new IP. I have had it change on me while the machine was up. There was a power blip. My servers/firewall are on UPS's so they weren't affected, but the modem did a blip and the ip address bounced down 10. Other than that, I have had it change only if I change network cards or if the power is out for more than 3 days (went on vacation once, before UPS was on firewall, power went out, box didn't reboot). I don't believe that Nate's 60 days is correct. I checked it once and I believe it is only 2-4 days (although that was about a year ago...). -- Thanks, James Spinti jspinti at dartdist dot com 952-368-3278 ext 396 fax 952-368-3255 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list