Re: dhcp & ip addresses

2001-08-09 Thread Paul Mackinney
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Eric Boo spake: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm using pump on SID. My ISP is a cable provider who do not issue > > static ips. Usually, when I use pump, I have the same ip address for > > months, unless I switch off the modem and someone else grabs it. > > > > When I reboot int

Re: dhcp & ip addresses

2001-08-01 Thread Duane
Eric, I'm not sure if i can answer your question, but i may be able to clearify the cable-modem issue a little. My brother has the cable modem and uses Win2k - i did notice that getting the dynamic IP address all depended upon his "computer" name. It appears to me that AT&T uses the host name to d

Re: dhcp & ip addresses

2001-07-28 Thread Eric Boo
Hi, Thanks for your reply. However, my firewall has been showing many ips running the same exploits (port 53) against as well as pinging my machine. I'm thinking of grabbing a different ip from my dhcp-providing cable ISP. So far, dhclient and pump keeps giving me the same ip, even when I apt-ge

Re: dhcp & ip addresses

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 10:02:49AM +0800, Eric Boo wrote: > Question: How are these ip address stored, if they are (under pump > espcially), and how do I force pump to get another different ip if > needed? > > Also, I can't seem to use pump on the command line after releasing it > with pump -r. pu

dhcp & ip addresses

2001-07-27 Thread Eric Boo
Hi all, I'm using pump on SID. My ISP is a cable provider who do not issue static ips. Usually, when I use pump, I have the same ip address for months, unless I switch off the modem and someone else grabs it. When I reboot into windows on the same machine, I get another ip address, then when I g