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

[Fred James]

My discussions with AT&T today ended with them saying they do not now 
support static IPs, and they are not sure they ever will.  A sales rep 
from AT&T has promised to call by tomorrow afternoon to either confirm 
or deny - will be glad to advise the list of what I am told at that time.

I use a LinkSys DSL/Cable Router and had been using a static IP - I have 
been trying to get it going with DHCP on the Internet side, with no 
success so far (it all seems so cut and dried in the manual) - has 
anyone had any success with this set up as yet?


brian at pongonova.net wrote:

> 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
> 
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