Re: [PLUG] IPTables Debian Comcast

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

>My Mother is connected through Comcast Coatsville connection.  about 
>once a month the dhcp fails and all you have to do is reboot the 
router >and it works.  It seems either their system goes down 
periodically or >they are seeing that you are up continously and pull 
the plug on you >forcing you to reboot.
>
>Because my mother is in Downingtown, she cannot get dsl at her 
location >:-( so she must have a dynamic IP address.

First, this sounds more like a cablemodem problem than some other 
problem.  2nd, I've had the same IP address except for a brief period of 
time when I used a 2nd NIC MAC address.  No matter how many times the 
modem loses sync, or has to be reeducated, I get back the same IP 
address, and I suspect that Comcast will keep on assigning an address 
based on the MAC of the NIC nominally connected to it.  3rd if all she 
is losing time on happens once a month, be grateful, there are friends 
of mine, who regularly lose their connection and have to reset their 
cable modem, and then their computers to get started up.

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