Fedora and Qwest
Frank Cox
theatre at sasktel.net
Wed May 16 19:50:28 UTC 2007
On Wed, 16 May 2007 14:07:38 -0500
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> You may want to check to see if the Windows machine is still doing
> DHCP to get its information. Even though he has a static IP address,
> the modem may still be configured to use DHCP, and provide a static
> IP address that way. If you are using PPPoE, I would still expect
> the same setup - you connect as if you were getting a dynamic IP
> address, and always get the same static IP address as your DHCP lease.
"They say" that it is using a standard DHCP request, but frankly I'm not
convinced that they even know what DHCP is. Anyway, one of the first things
that I tried was a DHCP request and it returned nothing at all. I tried it a
few times, actually, with no response whatsoever.
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