Quoting Paul O'Neil <poneil at dbiassociates.net>:
> Excuse me for asking an old question here but Ive been running SuSE with a
> cable modem for a couple months. About 5-6 weeks ago the internet access
> was
> not working and I rebooted noticing I came up with a new IP address, and it
> worked fine. How does it work exactly when the cable company releases and
> renews an ip address. Do they merely setup their system to issue new ip
> addresses when cusomters reboot their computer or does it take affect
> immediately and it caused the internet disruption that required a reboot or
> at least a network reload? If so, can this be detected automatically and
> taken care of or is that just how it works?
A DHCP client daemon (dhcpcd, pump) can do this automatically. Some cable
companies apparently reassign the same address over and over when the leases run
out, so you get away without a daemon for long enough to make you think you
don't need one. :-)
Ronan
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