Cox now insists on DHCP protocol

I was guessing. Someone else explained how else it could be done.

"David A. Sinck" wrote:
>
> \_ SMTP quoth Digital Wokan on 10/26/2001 09:41 as having spake thusly:
> \_
> \_ They can check to see if your system has a current lease on the DHCP
> \_ server. If not, they can see if it's up with a ping. If so, they know
> \_ you've got a static address set.
>
> That's nice in theory, but my firewall crisps the ping packets too.
> :-)
>
> David