On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 12:29:46PM -0500, Frank Stratton - VE3YY wrote: > Check to see if you are sending a renew IP request to the > DHCP server. The best client I've found is the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) DHCP client. It's got plenty of script-programmable hooks, remains running for the life of the interface, and follows the protocol very tightly. > I know of one fellow who had a problem similar to yours and he > complained to Sympatico and they fixed his constantly changing IP > address. But Sympatico is PPPoE, not DHCP. My parents use it, I run their network, and they use PPPoE. Sympatico's been that way for years. > It may also be that they do not have enough IP "real" IP addresses > available for your subnet and have to take away your IP address and > probably others to service new requests. This would be a *very very broken* DHCP server. You *cannot* give out a DHCP address if you've previously negotiated a lease for it with someone else that is still in effect. They're expected to renew their lease well before it expires. > Don't you just love DHCP. Doesn't it stand for Don't Hold > Connections Permanently? I'm assuming this is rhetorical humour (because it doesn't). :)
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