Re: [SLUG] Staying connected

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sat Nov 02 2002 - 11:37:25 EST


On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 08:44:56AM -0500, Russell Hires wrote:

> AAAhhhhh...the joys of Verizon's DSL service....This is all about DHCP,
> pump, etc...
>
> So, I figured out (for now) my email situation, but now I have other
> questions. How do I keep my computer connected to the net all the time?
> When I switched from Earthlink to Verizon, and when I use pump to get my
> address, everything works okay. It's just that after a time, the IP
> expires, and I have manually re-run pump to get a new address. I know
> that there is a better solution to this, but what is it? Isn't there a
> dhcp daemon that runs in the background that checks this sort of thing?

You should be able to run dhcpcd to keep your connection alive. That's
what it's for.

Paul



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