Internet sharing with linux and win98 machines

[Dpk]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 03:40:17PM -0400, Benjamin Minshall wrote:

   Despite it's name, DHCP does not have to be dynamic nor does it
   require lease lengths.  It is a trivial matter on a DHCP server to
   have set up static assignment maps like...
   
   	if MAC = AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA then IP = 1.2.3.4
   
   In this situation, there is no expiration, the IP address is

Not true.  Just for clarification:

"if MAC = AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA then IP = 1.2.3.4" implies that a specific
network card should get the same address everytime.  Its lease could
still expire and the client will request an address, but it will
receive the same address.  As you mentioned this setting would allow
an ISP to change their IP allocation.

However, setting the lease time to infinity causes the lease to never
expire.

These are two different settings, and each can be used independently
of each other.  

Dennis

   'static', and if needed, the cable modem company can change their
   IP allocating scheme without sending "Click on the network control
   panel" instructions to hundreds of customers.
   
   -----Original Message-----
   From: linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu
   [mailto:linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu]On Behalf Of Marcel Kunath
   Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 3:21 PM
   To: Seth D Mosier
   Cc: kunathma@pilot.msu.edu; linux-user@egr.msu.edu
   Subject: Re: Internet sharing with linux and win98 machines
   
   
   Well I hate to be anal but I think we must be in this case.
   
   It is still a lease with a lengthy period. My friend in Sydney has
   a dhcp address which usually never changes. It's lease is long.
   
   The reason to be anal is that we trying to advise somebody how to
   hook up to ATT with Linux. If I said "static IP" then I would say
   call ATT and ask what your static IP is. They will say "huh, what?"
   I have to tell him its a dynamic IP because its assigned by an DHCP
   server and I am sure the first time he hooks up to it it is
   assigned at random.
   
   I mean even if the lease is long he could not connect to ATT if he
   specified the IP on his machine as static and was not using a dhcp
   client. Or can somebody tell me otherwise that they are using @Home
   without dhcp client?
   
   mk