Cable Internet provider (Adelphia) system policies toward GNU/Linux
My cable modem system seems to perform differently under M$ Windoze OS's than
under *NIX-like systems (GNU/Linux, for example).
I am a subscriber to Adelphia high-speed Internet (a.k.a. "Powerlink", but this
is not the old one-way Powerlink that uses a phone line for upstream, but 2-
way "full" cable broadband). I live in Western New York. My computer is
configured to dual-boot both M$Windoze and Linux; and I notice a very
interesting and unanticipated effect because of this. It pertains to IP address
assignment; basically the Internet connection from Linux works *great*, but ...
When logging in under the M$ OS, I always get the same IP address I've had for
about a year or so. But when logging in under Linux, I get a *different* IP
address, and what is more, I think it is a different IP _each_ _time_, not just
a different one than the IP I get under M$Windoze. So, to put it concisely, my
IP address although not *fixed* (guaranteed by the provider not to change)
under Winblows, is *stable* over a long-ish period of time (weeks, months,
maybe years). But under *Linux*, the IP I am given is both non-fixed (assigned
under DHCP, as it is under Winblows), and also *non-stable*, i.e. it "floats"
and is likely to be different each time I fire up the system.
I haven't looked at the IPs I am assigned under Linux to see what range they
span and if they are in a different range from those (that one, which
is "stable") assigned under Winblows, but I have read elsewhere that my
provider assignes from a "pool" of IPs that is different from the "WinPool", so
to speak, to UNIX systems. This is odd. Does anyone know why they do this, and
what characteristic of MS Winblows they might be keying-in-on, so to speak,
that causes a "stability" to be achieved for the connection under Winblows,
that isn't present under non-Winblows (Linux)?
Thanks, all.
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