[PLUG-TALK] TelCo Rant

[Galen Seitz]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>    Ever since Frontier Communications switched me from a static DSL IP address
> to dynamic ones, they've certainly proven the dynamicism of the address.
> Every two nights for the past 9 days the telco has changed my IP address.
> They started gently at one change per night, then moved to 2 changes per
> night. Last night they set a personal best: once per hour from midnight
> through 6:00 am. Yep, 7 times. So much for stable addresses unless there's a
> power disruption to the DSL bridge or router. Here's the log of changes since
> last Sunday (I wasn't logging changes from the prior Wednesday through
> Saturday):

Have you considered that your router may be requesting a new DHCP
lease independent of any Frontier action?  I think that's within the
realm of possibility.  To determine whether this is happening would
require snooping the traffic between your router and the DSL
modem(which would likely require a hub and machine running wireshark).
 Alternatively, you could swap in a router running openwrt so you
would have a setup similar to mine.  I have a spare WRT54GL that I
could loan you if you'd like to try this experiment.

galen
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Galen Seitz
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