Re: Cable Internet provider (Adelphia) system policies toward GNU/Linux
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On Friday 11 Apr 2003 9:05 pm, also.cute.and.fluffy@att.net wrote:
> 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.
Have you read man dhclient.conf?
It may be that you could ask for a lease with a longer expiry time and then
renew it before its run out - thus keeping it for longer?
- --
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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