[ILUG] Adsl IP Settings

[Niall O Broin]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 06:16:51PM +0100, Karl Jeacle wrote:

> On Mon 15 Jul 02, 18:08:42 +0100, skyhawk at socc.ie wrote:
> >    I've noticed that if i disconnect and reconnect i have the same ip
> >    address.
> >    I only get a different ip address if i reboot the machine before
> >    reconnecting to the server.
> > 
> >    Can anyone explain to me why it only changes to a new ip
> >    after a reboot?
> 
> Are you sure this is always the case? Have you tried this a number of
> different times, and at different times of the day? It's possible that 
> some MAC address caching is going on, but I don't think that's the case.
> 
> It's more likely that when you log out and in again quickly, the IP
> address that you have released is first back out of the pool. But
> when you reboot, someone else has logged on in the meantime and
> received your previous IP address.

Karl,
     Did you not say at the AGM that Eircom ADSL provided a fixed IP and
also that an indeterminate number of IPs could be provided. Is this not in
fact the case ?

And while I'm here - did you hear anything further about the likelihood of
ADSL over ISDN being provided any time soon ?




Kindest regards,



Niall  O Broin