basic question about assigning ip address

[Ed Greshko]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 06:59:35AM -0400, Jacques B. wrote:
>>> They used to have a variety of other packages offering 2, 4, or an
>>> arbitrary (pay a few bucks per extra) number.
>> The question still remains if they are still doing that for longtime
>> customers or if they've been moved to the new home DSL package with
>> just one IP.
> 
> No; you get what you signed up for unless you ask to change.
> 
>> than one public IP.  Based on the description of his problem it could
>> be coincidental that his problem started when he changed hardware
>> while the real cause is the change in static IP allocation by his ISP
>> provider.  That may not be the case.  But the symptoms could easily
>> fit that scenario hence we need to rule it out.  No amount of
> 
> It's possible but unlikely. A message from the OP to speakeasy wouldn't
> hurt.

I still think that getting the output of "ifconfig" as well as "netstat -rn"
would clear up many questions.  Seems to be the most simple approach...at
least to me.

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