How often the IP address changes?

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swordfish1

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I noticed that my IP address is changing a way too frequently. Like 20 times a day! Is that normal? I don't notice any loss of connectivity and pppd does not seem to get resarted either. Weird.
 
I think pppd will stay up regardless of ip address change

Restarting it every time would be like httpd restarting every time a new client accesses it.

**horrible analogy**
 
I don't care that it changes, I wouldn't have noticed if I have not forgotten the "iptables --flush" statement before inserting the entries for port forwarding etc, so I ended up having hundreds of entries there for all ip addresses I have been assigned since the last restart, and the list was quite long!

I am just curious, why is changing so often, is it intentional?
 
Must be something to do with base stations ? I have had the same thing between northcliff twr & roodepoort twr ..
 
what? as far as i'm aware everytime you recconect it changes, so its all up to you
 
??

I think he means without switching off and on ?
swordfish1 said:
I noticed that my IP address is changing a way too frequently. Like 20 times a day! Is that normal? I don't notice any loss of connectivity and pppd does not seem to get resarted either. Weird.
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I do not reconnect, it is always connected, I don't even notice the change if I don't look for it. I just wonder if that somehow causes the unrealiability of many of the protocols as well. For example the ICQ disconnections? P2P losing sources after a while (even when using proxy) ... hmm have not though of this stuff but this can be a problem I think, maybe

I wrote little thing that is saving a history of IP address changes into a file, and guess what, my IP has changed 3 times for the last 1 hour or so! on average every 20 minutes it changes!

Is that just me or other people got the same problem?
 
Your probably stuck between two base stations and the modem cannot decide which one (designed for mobility).

Try figure out which station you connect to that gives you good results and according to wbs you can try block off the other tower with a
<quote>sheet of Metal</quote>
 
but you gotta recconect to get an IP it wont change while you're connected
 
slimothy said:
but you gotta recconect to get an IP it wont change while you're connected
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Not that I have tried it from SWE2 but if you [or a script] did a DHCP Release and Renew...?
 
It could be disconnecting and reconnecting without him knowing...

Like sometimes the signal on the modem will be five and then briefly zero then five again--kind like a reset signal. This happens to me extremely seldomly but i have noted it.
 
I don't normally notice when the ip changes, I don't think that it physically drops the connection but I can't be sure

I have no signal problems, have no idea to which tower I connect, but I guess it is the Northcliff one as I have it almost in sight ...
 
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