On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 11:41:32 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > But if the ISP hung up on me I would get a 'debian pppd[1192]: Hangup > (SIGHUP)' and I don't get that. > > If my IP expired I would not be able to ping it, but I can. I just can't > dig anything.
A better test would be whether someone else not on the same LAN segment as your router can ping your IP address. But obviously that test is difficult to arrange for a home user. Look through /var/log/syslog and see if you can find something which identifies the lease length. For example, on my ethernet link, I see a message in the log which says dhclient: bound to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -- renewal in 290593 seconds. That works out to about 3.36 days, in my case. The message will probably be different for ppp, but you get the idea. And if the DHCP server is set up not to honor renewal requests, which is likely to be the case for dial-up lines, then you have a problem. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1773078939.1049101270414103705.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
