[OT] Re: Fedora vs openSUSE

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On 12/21/2011 08:15 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 12/21/2011 10:04 AM, g wrote:
>> only time it changes is when i do a full system power down, including ups,
>> which brings down dsl modem.
>
> I used to do this type of stuff at an ISP.  What you have is a fairly
> long lease on an IP.  When that lease expires, your modem has to renew
> it.  There's a good chance that you'll get another lease on the same IP,
> but not always.  If the modem goes down briefly, or there's a short loss
> of signal, you'll still have the same IP.  If you want to be (almost)
> sure your IP changes, leave it off for at least fifteen minutes.  Why I
> qualified that last statement is left as an exercise for the reader.
-=-

so i have been told. i do not know how long the lease is, but i do know
that it is longer than 30 days. i used to have dsl modem power brick
plugged in wall outlet. i realized my error a good while back when i
lost mains and i was downloading a large file and had about 10 minutes
remaining.

if i had brick plugged into ups, i could have halted dl and resumed when
mains can back up. it was not a torrent. :-(

i did correct my error. now, from time to time when i 'pull plugs', i get
a new ip and really not concerned how long i hold ip.

now, sometimes i pull dsl line just to refresh ip and avoid 'crazies'
hacking ip blocks.

-+-

On 12/21/2011 08:25 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 12/21/2011 10:04 AM, g wrote:
>> even then, when i power back up, i go back into same dsl block;
>>
>>    (adsl-184-41-x-x.mem.bellsouth.net[184.41.x.x])
>
> Sorry to respond twice.  It only just occurred to me that I should
> comment on this as well.  What your ADSL modem connects to at the phone
> company isn't a modem or a router, but I can't remember any more what
> it's called.  (It's been eight years since I needed to know.)  However,
> if you think of it as a dumb router that does nothing except DHCP and
> passing packets, you'll be close enough.  The point is, that device has
> a fixed pool of IP addresses, all from the same subnet, to pass out.
> Thus, as long as you're connecting to that device, you're going to get
> an address from the same block.
-=-

not a problem.

first jump is run to a rather large cabinet at side of a street, about
8 blocks away, where it goes from copper to fiber. then connects to a
'central office' about 5 miles away. what is in between me and 'co',
i have no idea. [see attached for a tracerute]


when i first signed up with aDSL, i did not get speed i am paying for,
so i call at&t to have a check run to see what/where problem was.

as it turns out, i am at end of a run, approx 3k20 feet of copper. :-(
so instead of 138 kbps, i average around 86 kbps.

fiber is in my future.


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