Re: [TCLUG:11633] Ip address timouts

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Dave Erickson wrote:

> Does anyone know how long my IP address will stay the same with Mediaone
> on a two-way cable modem?
> 
> I have my web server up and I can access it from the net with a
> different computer but the address will change right? 
> 
> The weird thing is, I decided to replace the Red Hat install on the
> server with Slackware 7 and the IP address is still the same as it was
> on the Red Hat system. How can this be? Doesn't DHCP re-negociate an IP
> address every so often?
> 

Their dhcpd probably has your MAC in it's cache, and will assign the same
IP until it expires. You should be able to see an expire date in the dhcp
logs on your Linux box somewhere.

You can always get a hostname with one of the ddns providers and have a
static hostname no matter what your IP is.  :)

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