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Re: dhclient renews lease every 5 secs



On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 11:29:38AM -0400, Alec Berryman wrote:
> begin  quotation of Stefaan Himpe:
> 
> > In case of a static ip address, don't use dhcp.
> > Dhcp is for dynamic ip addresses only.
> 
> It's also possible his ISP has assigned him a static IP through DHCP;
> this does make configuration easier for most folks as you don't need
> to specify any information.

I tried setting the interface as static just after posting my message
last night and it seems to have worked ok.

I was just unsure, whether I could do this, given the modem is using
pppoe, rather than a bridged connection.

but at least the log messages have gone away.

Thanks for your replys.


cheers

dc

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