Internet sharing with linux and win98 machines

[Jeremy Rickard]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Marcel Kunath wrote:

> Damn I had overread that. Is this true? Or is it just a long lease for a
> dynamic IP??? Why would every @Home customer get static IP's? Is IPv6 that
> close to production? =)


you get an IP via DHCP, but then it never changes. in fact, when I had a
tech come out to check my lines, he told me to not use the DHCP servers
after I had gotten an IP address because they were so unreliable