According to the cox guy I talked to, in 99% of cases you will end up keeping the same ip you had on @home.  So there is not necessarily anything wrong.  Don't know about the DHCP lease length though...

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, David A. Sinck wrote:

> 
> 
> \_ SMTP quoth Digital Wokan on 1/20/2002 23:27 as having spake thusly:
> \_
> \_ No probs there.  I'm always online.  Even hooked up a UPS system to help
> \_ with that one.  I suppose I should get one of those dhs.org clients to
> \_ keep my URL up to date for me though.
> \_ 4 hours... If they want their DHCP servers hammered that often, that's
> \_ their problem.
> 
> I followed the instructions (when the servers weren't hammered for
> conversion) and ignored the confusing part of the advance user page
> "hostname is unimportant" "don't change hostname".
> 
> Odd thing though, pump's status output
> 
> # pump -s
> Device eth0
>         IP: 24.177.xx.xx  (old ip still)
>         Netmask: 255.255.255.0
>         Broadcast: 24.177.xx.255
>         Network: 24.177.xx.0
>         Boot server 24.1.240.45
>         Next server 0.0.0.0
>         Gateway: 24.177.xx.1
>         Hostname: <xxxxxx>
>         Domain: mesa1.az.home.com
>         Nameservers: 24.1.240.33 24.1.240.35 24.1.240.34
>         Renewal time: Tue Jan 22 09:34:44 2002
>         Expiration time: Tue Jan 22 13:25:08 2002
> 
> Now it might just be me, but that doesn't look like a 4 hour window
> from Monday morning....
> 
> Anyone else "convert" yet not?
> 
> I know the cox.net addrs are elsewhere in ipland and I even powered
> down my modem for 5-10 minutes to see if that would help it
> retrain... no dice.
> 
> David
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