That seems a little odd.  I was down for a couple of days while 
reconfiguring my main router.  (Decided to do a fresh Mandrake install 
instead of an upgrade.)  Maybe it's because the cable modem was on the 
whole time.

/* Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age */

Voltage Spike wrote, On 11/13/2002 11:37 AM:
> Just FYI, Cox will change your IP address if you stop using it.  In 
> other words, if I leave my computer on all the time it will remain the 
> same (even across the DHCP lease).  I have found that powering down my 
> computer for six hours at night results in a new address.  
> Unfortunately, I have not experimented enough to learn the exact 
> conditions under which Cox decides that you require a new address.
> 
> - -- Voltage Spike