[olug] i'm ba-a-a-ack

[Tim - DZ]

I've gotten new IP's a couple of times.  

My best quess is that when the restructure their 'nodes' or
'neighborhoods' or whatever they call their different segments they
re-distribute IP's.

Typically changes are far and few between though.

-t


-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Trent Melcher
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 11:33 AM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: RE: [olug] i'm ba-a-a-ack


Welcome back.....Your IP shouldnt change much,  the only time I ever had
mine change (since they have been cox.net) has been when my cable modem
was actually turned off for a week while I was on vacation.  When it
went out to renew the address it grabbed a new one.  Even thought they
set the expire time on the IP address for 24 hours, it goes out and
tries to get the same address, so unless your cable modem is off for an
extended amount of time it will renew with the same address.

When they were @home, even though your address was DHCP, they assigned
you an IP based on your hostname of your PC.  So you always got the same
address. But now since they have changed to cox.net, their validation
used is the MAC address of your cable modem now, and your address is
truely dynamic so the possibility of it changing is there.

Trent

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org]On Behalf Of
thelarsons3 at cox.net
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 11:11 AM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: [olug] i'm ba-a-a-ack


Thanks for the broadband advice back in August.  We ended up in NW
Omaha, and Cox looked like the best option.  We've got three boxes
(Linux, NetBSD,
Windows) sharing the connection, and my wife and I are both pretty
happy. So far my IP hasn't changed so maybe I'll tinker with the
firewall so I can ssh in from outside.

Hope to be able to make it to a meeting sometime.  When is the next one?
What is the topic?

Tim - new transplant from MN

--
Tim & Alethea

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