From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 12:42:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 B0DE016A41F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:42:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deejy-pooh@ntlworld.com) Received: from mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D711C43D48 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:42:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deejy-pooh@ntlworld.com) Received: from aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060117124209.ZLAC6790.mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:42:09 +0000 Received: from cpc4-linc4-5-1-cust91.nott.cable.ntl.com ([82.25.112.91]) by aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060117124209.QAYY19063.aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@cpc4-linc4-5-1-cust91.nott.cable.ntl.com> for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:42:09 +0000 From: Uncle Deejy-Pooh Organization: Non Gratum Anus Rodentum To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:41:59 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601171241.59564.deejy-pooh@ntlworld.com> Subject: Deejs' Firewall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:42:11 -0000 P.S. I ought to have mentioned I'm DHCP. And,as a further aside to this - you see, I REALLY DO KNOW JACK-ALL - why is it considered bad form to turn off ones broadband connection ? I do it every day, no problems in re-connecting... I have, after my last posting I Mamma'd around a bit, noticed mention of 'leases' and the need for ones provider to re-lease ones connection. Investigation took me to /var/db/dhclient.leases.sis0. In this there is info, which I hesitate to reprint here :>}, repeated twice, culminating in these lines: < Loads of info here...............> renew 3 2006/1/18 01:27:21; rebind 3 2006/1/18 13:26:40; expire 3 2006/1/18 17:26:29; < Same info repeated here......> renew 3 2006/1/18 01:46:16; rebind 3 2006/1/18 13:31:25; expire 3 2006/1/18 17:26:28; EOF I take it from this that my connection will be been renewed at the given time/date, then rebind (???), and finally die, waiting for the next renewal I guess. Well, try as it might, it WON'T renew at 1.30am because it's ALWAYS turned off ! It is, however, USUALLY on at the other given times. So, stop-your-laughing and point my snout to the trough... Once again, waaay off-topic, Deej