This DHCP is too dynamic

[Janina Sajka]

I've never seen anything like it. It seems, though, that they mean to do
things this way, because she was successful using scp to copy a kernel
rpm from my system. That worked, but ftp didn't. 

I'm having her call and ask questions tomorrow. Hopefully, she can just
get a static IP for a few dollars extra.


Andrew Hodgson writes:
> Janina Sajka in <20030629204637.GC24435 at rednote.net>:
> >It's the way her ISP changes the ip address every minute or so. I'm not
> >kidding--I've had her do an ifconfig ppp0 and we get a different address
> >every minute or so.
> 
> This would cause a problem as the system will kick you off updating
> the hostname ip address every minute.  Are you sure this is not an
> isp/configuration problem at her end?  If it really is changing every
> minute, there are serious problems (i.e, how to download large files).