Lawrence,
I understand 100% how a dhcp server and dhcp work (trust me)... what i dont
understand is how can one product allow me to keep an address for months on
end, and another req me to change an address sometime 3 times a day....
I will look at the link you sent. Thanks again!
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Lawrence Houston wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Kurt A. Brust wrote:
>
> > Ok, got everything working ... even port forwarding.....
> >
> > My problem is, every 8 to 12 hours... I end up getting a new IP (via DHCP VIA
> > Roadrunner) ... everything is fast... but when I was running NAT32
> > (www.nat32.com) on windows ... my IP would not change for weeks sometime
> > months... even when I was running Linux with easyfw and rinetd ... it would
> > stay the same for a min of a week, sometimes longer.
> >
> > but with this new product, FIREWALL (by netmax.com) it changes, and changes
> > often ... is there anything i can do to stop this from happening?
>
> Although I have NO experience with the NetMAX Products, I would expect it
> it be the ISP controlling DHCP Lease Times and hence IP Expiration
> (although the NetMAX Product may be requesting a shorter expiration
> times). From David Ranch's TrinitOS:
>
> http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/index-linux.html
>
> PUMP lacks the ability to rerun Firewall Script when a DHCP Server has
> actually changed the assigned IP Address at Expiration time. His solution
> is using DHCPCD (instead of PUMP) and rerunning the Firewall Script ONLY
> when the IP Address had changed.
>
> David also has a Link to some Roadrunner specific info (I had Videotron
> here)???
>
> Lawrence Houston - ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>
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