[Dx4win] Telnet via Cable Modem Timeout

Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:17:15 -0400

If you read the RFP on DHCP, you will find that as long as the IP is active 
that it will get renewed during its half-life of the lease.  So if you have 
an expiration of 2 hours, your IP will be "renewed" every hour.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Pete Smith [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent:	Thursday, July 18, 2002 3:48 AM
To:	[email protected]
Cc:	[email protected]
Subject:	Re: [Dx4win] Telnet via Cable Modem Timeout

At 10:19 PM 7/17/02 -0500, KC9JS, John wrote:
>So your problem
>must be related to the Linksys router. Just saying it may be something you
>should look it.

I'm not sure this is obviously the router.  Cable modem systems can be set
up ("provisioned" is the weird word they use, I guess from telephone-speak) 
in a number of different ways.  At least in theory, the one I'm on grants a 
set-duration "lease" of an IP address.  There was briefly a time where it
would drop every 2 hours regularly as clockwork, but that stopped fairly
quickly and now I keep the same IP address.  I *think* the system is
automatically renewing my lease every two hours...

As for the support, I couldn't agree more.  Once in a while you get someone 
who knows his or her stuff, but it's rare.  I've found one such guy now and 
learned a "back way" to get to him.  It makes things a lot better.

73, Pete N4ZR

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