From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 1 12:53:57 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA53037B401 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:53:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F2543F75 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:53:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <2003020120534900200i69gle>; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 20:53:49 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F39C48463; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 15:55:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "freebsd-questions" , "Matthew Emmerton" Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 15:55:34 -0500 X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2657) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: <002001c2c930$5665f1d0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Verizon DSL+PPPoE Message-Id: <20030201205545.8F39C48463@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:54:55 -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: >> I remember seeing this posted about a year ago, but I couldn't google >> it.... >> >> one my business server, I run Verizon DSL and PPPoE. I setup it up >> like with the example they used on Freebsddairy. >> >> the problem I ran into, after about 1 week is that the connection just >> died. everything is lit up, no log entries in the ppp.log. the only >> solution was a 'killall ppp' and restarting in about a minute later, >> and everything is fine... >> >> however, after i did that, I noticed my IP changed. whereas i've >> closed the connection b4 and reopened it and got the same IP. Does >> this have something to do with ppp not accepting a renewed DHCP IP >> address? > >PPP doesn't use DHCP; you're confusing two technologies. > >Whether or not you get the same IP after dropping your connection depends >entirely upon your provider. Some providers will keep recently-dropped IPs >around for some period of time so that you can get the same IP back when you >reconnect, but others won't. > >In most cases, PPPoE service with dynamic IPs are not designed for hosting >servers (which is the only case where you'd need a static IP). If this is >allowable by your AUP, I'd look into using a commercial DNS service that can >let you auto-update your IPs when they change. My personal choice is >ZoneEdit (http://www.zoneedit.com). sorry, I guess i wasnt clear enough; i do not mind that, what I mind, is that PPP keeps locking up. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message