[oclug] dhcp grief

[Mike]

On Sunday 06 March 2005 14:46, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 12:29:46PM -0500, Frank Stratton - VE3YY wrote:
>
> > 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.

I bet they gave it to me

> 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.

Here's a snippet of the file pulled from ifconfig ppp0

Thu Feb 24 05:30:00 EST 2005 :67.70.28.171 P-t-P:64.230.254.38 
Thu Feb 24 05:40:00 EST 2005 :64.230.96.10 P-t-P:64.230.254.38 
Thu Feb 24 05:50:00 EST 2005 :64.230.146.89 P-t-P:64.230.254.38 
Thu Feb 24 06:00:00 EST 2005 :64.230.146.16 P-t-P:64.230.254.38 
Thu Feb 24 06:10:00 EST 2005 :64.230.98.104 P-t-P:64.230.254.38 

I now have it running through the linksys router and when it is bad the admin 
status screen keeps popping up error messages after downloading 4-5 messages.


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