[Gllug] Recommend an ADSL modem?

[Dylan]

On Friday 30 January 2004 12:31 pm, Nix wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, dylan at dylan.me.uk stated:
> > I do have a constant stream of:
> >
> > Jan 25 18:05:39 192.168.250.251 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to
> > 10.0.0.2 port 67
> > Jan 25 18:05:39 192.168.250.251 dhclient: DHCPACK from
> > AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD Jan 25 18:05:39 192.168.250.251 dhclient: bound to
> > AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD -- renewal in 25 seconds.
> >
> > AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD = my external IP
> >
> > at intervals of between 30 seconds and 5 minutes.
>
> If it's as high as 5 minutes, you're screwed :) the router goes gaga
> if you don't renew in <1min.

Are you saying that the lease on the half-bridged IP adress is ALWAYS 1 
minute? That's ridiculous! I haven't had line-drop issues even with 5 
mins - only when the ISP drops the line AND I'm not actually using the 
connection at the time. So at the weekend there'll be a keepalive 
script added to cron...

Dylan

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