cox dhcp to ip masquerade

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