[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: AT&T back up!

[brian@pongonova.net]

Sorry about not attaching to the thread earlier...I'm not yet
receiving mail from the mailing list...

For those of you with AT&T, the service in Garland came up around 2000
yesterday evening.  Unfortunately, AT&T is being very adamant about
not giving out static IP's (I had one originally), unless you have an
unsupported version of MacOS.  Anybody by chance know which versions
of MacOS don't support DHCP? :)

On a Linux-related note, dhclient seems to work OK with
the new service.  Fire it up, point it to the right interface, and you
should get a response back from AT&T's DHCP server.  

If this doesn't work, you might try hitting the DHCP server directly:
12.242.18.34.  Also, my gateway seems to be 12.237.176.1, but YMMV
depending on where you live.

So maybe someone can answer me this:  If I accidentally terminate my
dhclient, and never update my dynamic address, will it get reissued at
some later date?  I'm pretty torqued about losing my static IP, but I
don't see anywhere in my agreement requiring me to ask for a new
lease.

  --Brian